I like to receive comment from readers because I like to interact with them, people comment your post means that they have read your post. If you wan to encourage your readers to comment your post in order to make your blog more active, then you should try the following top 5 wordpress plugin that can help to increase your comments.

1. Show Top Commentators
Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names (linked to their website if desired) and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.

2. Brian’s Threaded Comments
Adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. For example, when you click the reply link for comment no. 2, then your comment is placed directly under the comment no.2.

3. Subscribe to Comment
Allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.

4. Comment Relish
Developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before. The message dispatched to the user is defined within the plugin’s preferences. Numerous tags have been integrated to allow for information to be included in the message easily (I.E.: timestamp, author name, comment, ETC.).

5. Link Love
Turns off nofollow for all commenters who have posted at least 10 comments.