Comments on: What Is Sucking Your Blogging Confidence Away?

By: To Permit Troll or Not to Permit Troll | The Blog Herald

To Permit Troll or Not to Permit Troll | The Blog Herald — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:51:13 +0000

[...] and comment trolls make blogging miserable, even to the point where we becoming over-sensitive and frustrated with blogging because of the amount of negativity and angst that comes with opening yourself up to the world of [...]

By: To Permit Troll or Not to Permit Troll | The Blog Herald

To Permit Troll or Not to Permit Troll | The Blog Herald — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:51:13 +0000

By: Give Back To Blog Experts : The Blog Herald

Give Back To Blog Experts : The Blog Herald — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:25:46 +0000

[...] was enough to bother her, but the amount of time that post required to handle comment spammers was wearing her down. So she closed comments on that post a few months ago. That also bothered her. It’s the only [...]

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:02:22 +0000

I agree entirely! I do not allow mean or abusive comments on my blog. I simply delete them. I don’t even tell the commenter why.

The way I feel about it is this: my blog is like my living room. I don’t tolerate rude, inconsiderate people in my home. Why should I tolerate them in my blog?

Keep in mind that I don’t delete differing viewpoints. I just delete the posts that make me feel bad or could make others feel bad.

Thanks for the great post and great advice.

By: What is Hard About the Hard Work of Blogging? : The Blog Herald

What is Hard About the Hard Work of Blogging? : The Blog Herald — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:20:04 +0000

[...] you are blogging about topics you should be blogging about. Together, we’ve asked ourselves what is sucking your blogging confidence away and looked at what we can do to reenergizing your blogging spirit, which begged the question of [...]

By: Blog Struggles: Ideas and Drafts « Lorelle on WordPress

Blog Struggles: Ideas and Drafts « Lorelle on WordPress — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:11:49 +0000

[...] I’ve now stopped using the built-in WordPress draft feature unless I get stopped in the middle of editing a post before publishing. I was abusing it too much and the look of all those posts sitting there, staring at me, I couldn’t take it any more. [...]

By: Fighting Comment Spam: WordPress Comments Mass Edit Mode « Lorelle on WordPress

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:27:06 +0000

[...] a daily assault of comment spam is exhausting and damaging to the spirit. The more things that suck your blogging energy and enthusiasm away, the less fun the whole process [...]

By: Attack of the Mean Commenter: Blocking Commenters and Comments on Your WordPress Blog « Lorelle on WordPress

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:48:04 +0000

[...] In other words, don’t let the trolls suck out your blogging life force. [...]

By: Weekly Digest: Celebrating Two Years of Lorelle on WordPress.com With Guest Bloggers and Memories « Lorelle on WordPress

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:41:46 +0000

[...] write as they tackled a subject that no one was talking about at the time, how comments can make or break a blogger’s spirit. I’m proud that I was one of the first to bring the issue to [...]

By: Reenergizing Your Blogging Spirit : The Blog Herald

Reenergizing Your Blogging Spirit : The Blog Herald — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:00:28 +0000

[...] What Is Sucking Your Blogging Confidence Away?, I covered many of the things that tend to suck away the confidence of bloggers, casting a shadow [...]