Comments on: Blogs Are Public Documents – Bloggers and Commenters Beware

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:06:19 +0000

@Angela Booth:

If you have a good quality comment spam protection tool, why not? You can edit or delete any comments you don’t like. I’ve had open comments for years. Rarely do I ever get a comment that doesn’t match my content’s quality and subject. I’m fast with the delete button, though. :D

Don’t fear it. Embrace it. You’ll find you spend less time overmanaging your blog.

By: Angela Booth

Angela Booth — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:59:05 +0000

So true: “Blogs are public documents.”

I admire bloggers who leave their comments open, but I’m not brave enough to do it.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:36:17 +0000

@Jeremy Steele:

Disabling comments on a per post basis does not hurt a blog. Disabling comments for the entire blog may hurt the blog depending upon the blog. Not all blogs need comments. Some require them.

However, if your blog has comments and requires moderation before releasing, CAPTCHAs, or other question torture tests that get in the way of your readers and their comments, you will lose. And lose big.

It has been proven repeatedly that testing or moderation does not work consistently and prevents comments. The best choice are non-intrusive tools like Akismet that restrict comment spam tremendously while not interfering with blog interaction.

So, we kill off the nasty comments and spam comments that do get through as comment spammers continue to work overtime to bypass comment filters as part of our morning blog routine. I just killed six comment spam on my blog this morning. Akismet caught 253. I’d rather deal with six than 259, wouldn’t you?

By: Jessica Doyle

Jessica Doyle — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:37:20 +0000

I finally after two years have implemented a comment policy taking back control of the comments on my blog after a few mangled attempts at warning commenters that this is indeed my home and to respect it.

Nice Lorelle :)

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:48:01 +0000

And if the negative comments get out of hand just disable them (maybe do trackbacks only). Despite the common myth, I personally doubt disabling comments would kill a blog.

By: allie

allie — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:08:54 +0000

Great post!
i agree with you

Its true with all blogs. We should not expect that

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:34:50 +0000

@SimpleBrowser: From the point of view of a blog reader, thank you for keeping your blog clean of spam. But please, if you are using an anti-comment spam Plugin, which you should like Akismet, do not delete them but mark them as spam so the database will learn from your comment spam and protect my blog from the same. I'm sure that's what you do, but I like reminding people that we have to work together to stop comment spam.

By: Amber in Albuquerque

Amber in Albuquerque — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:33:03 +0000

Words to the wise indeed for both bloggers and commenters. Just to clarify, all the bloggers I mentioned in my original post are professionals who fully understand the consequences of their writing and expect a certain amount of comment trash. They control for spam and don’t have a problem with negative comments when they’re funny, well-written/well thought-out, or constructive. My main “Monday Mayhem” was commenters who think that, because they read a “personal” blog (one that is designed to provide entertainment for the audience and a certain amount of release for the author…rather than information) they think they are the author’s friend and/or therapist.

By: Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert)

Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:51:22 +0000

My motto is, sing your own song and let the chips fall where they might be. Not everyone appreciates opera or Barry Manilow or hard rock or whatever…but you’ll always be able to make your *targeted audience* happy if you write for them primarily.

I agree with:

As a blog writer and publisher, you are the entertainment. It’s your stage. Use it wisely and well.

So very true.

Best wishes,

Barbara

By: SimpleBrowser

SimpleBrowser — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:38:46 +0000

Blog posts means, blog comments. And blog comments means a little bit of spam comments. You are right, we must control the comments, specially the spams!

My blog is not a popular one. Then also, I am getting lots of spam comments, solely targeted to advertise their links. I simple delete them. Insults are also a part of blogging. We must ignore them and should continue blogging with our own style. Thanks.

By: Richard Butler

Richard Butler — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:07:55 +0000

I just want to add information about comments. A blogger really need to control the comments portion because many will post for spamming purposes.

It is good that every comments are moderated because as said in the article, it is also a content which people normally spend time reading.

By: Rupert

Rupert — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:41:37 +0000

At least it isn’t like having Youtube comments, some of them I expect but some just make my brain wobble with incomprehension.

I think that some Bloggers would kill for comments good or bad, and I have a lovely book at home called “Literary Mayhem”, before there were “Flame Wars” the great writers of our time wrote heated letters to each other, cross-referenced each other in their work, good or bad, and I think we are all the better off for it.

Rups