Absent the context it really came off as "People I like use it, you should too."
This raises the question of how to engage a reader who has never seen your site and has followed a link to specific post, with no idea if it is part of some larger narrative.
It could get tedious to have to preface every post with, "As you may recall, I previously [link], [link] ..."
I wonder if there's some way to automate that?
If you've been thinking through the ins and outs of getting a community for your site it might be interesting to read a more comprehensive post, something that pulls together the various things you've looked at and done.
I had been looking at different commenting tools for a site of mine, ruby-doc.org. Finally decided on Disqus, partly because I'd some experience with it but more because I knew that a few worthwhile Ruby sites were using it, so I likely posters would also likely have a Disqus account.
If you know that readers of your site are already likely to have an account or something (OpenID perhaps) that works with this or that discussion tool that could be an important factor.