Comments on: Time Wasting Blog Comments, Comments Policies, and Comment Etiquette

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By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:30:02 +0000

You’ve made a good point here. I taoltly agree that short and generic comments are often spammy.But at the same time, it may not be always necessary to be lenghty to prove it’s quality.For example, my this comment is not so long. But it is not generic either I’ll see if you send it to spam folder or approve it

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boom shaca laca — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:21:54 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:40:56 +0000

I’m not sure I understand what you are asking. Yes, it’s a real problem. Do you have this problem? Not sure. Do many bloggers have this problem? Daily.

By: Wean

Wean — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:24:46 +0000

Is it a real problem?

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:17:08 +0000

Always glad to help, and thank you.

If someone is really out of control, you can block them. That’s drastic measures, so make sure your comment policy is in place before you take such action. Still, some people don’t “get it” and so take the steps you need to take in order to protect you and your blog.

Remember, it’s your blog. You control it, including the comments.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:44:44 +0000

I just found your site by searching for blog comment etiquette. I’ve been thinking of establishing a comment policy.

I’ve got a frequent commenter that is not getting the message that I don’t want his/her spammish comments that try to hijack my posts. I’ve been trying to figure out a polite way to tell them to stop it. So, you post is certainly an encouragement to establish a comment policy.

By: pelf

pelf — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:45:13 +0000

Because I don’t have a lot of comments on a per post basis, I edit those “bad comment” manually. If somebody leaves a keyword-name, I edit it. If somebody leaves his blog URL in the comment box, I remove it (or place it in the box where the URL should be typed in the first place), if somebody says “This is great”, I trash it.

But of course, popular bloggers can’t afford the time to do all these, that’s why EDUCATION is important :)

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:54:24 +0000

Tricky. Many new bloggers are in the position where any comment is welcome.

But then yeah, as a blog gets more popular there is a point where the maintinence of comments becomes more time consuming than it can be worth. And responding to each comment personally likewise doesn’t scale too well.

That said I definitely think a comment policy is essential, because you can clearly stating what kinds of comments you’ll delete or what you consider spam, thereby cutting down the workload.

If things get really out of control the only thing I could imagine is moving to a login and at the most drastic, disabling comments altogether.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:43:27 +0000

This is something I've written about several times before, I even wrote up a little post looking at what comment policies should cover.