New Comment Policy
January 20th, 2008You may remember from a few days that I was speaking about issues I’ve been having with spammy comments and key words in user names, and thanks to some of your comments and some email discussions going on I’ve now added a comment policy to the code on my site, so that it’s clear what I will and will not do or tolerate with regards to comments.
I’ve been forgetting that it’s “My blog. My rules.” That’s the ultimate line here. Someone who is trying to steal ranking from my site has no right to tell me that I MUST approve their comment because they’re doing me a favor. I dislike that they were making me feel guilty about policing my own blog. That was the worst part.
Thank you to Drew at Benspark.com for helping me see some common sense about this. I’ve borrowed a leaf from you with the comment policy. Thank you for the suggestions.
I do like when comments contribute to the discussion, but not at the price. You wouldn’t walk into a local restaurant and start putting fliers up all over the walls without asking the owner. The same goes here. As I told one gentleman in an email discussion even though I have two businesses that I run online web design and tarot reading I’m not going to go into someone else’s blog and start writing those keywords in to people’s comments because that’s just RUDE. I can’t believe what passes for etiquette with some people.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Good decision, I do the same thing on my blog. The keyword “names” are nearly always useless comments too.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am
I am very glad that I could help you out with this. Good decision to stick to your guns about your blog.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Some of them lately have been a bit more useful seeming, but still.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Thank you again. I’m hoping that things will be a lot better.
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:51 am
I need to do this but haven’t a clue how to get the policy to show up where people are actually seeing the coment frame. I’m sick to death of feeling bad about deleting people’s comments but I’m not going to give commercial sites a free ride. How rude would that be to the folks who are kind enough to pay for my words?
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 am
i need to take a lesson from you. i’ve got some really nasty comments lately that i have rejected, and i have taken to removing links if they aren’t to another blog, or the comment name isn’t an actual person. i sometimes feel guilty or like i’m going to get in trouble, but you’re right. my blog, my rules.
February 5th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
When I first put the code in it was showing up between EVERY comment. It took a bit of finagling and I got it where it needed to be. Does your site run off wordpress? I can screen-cap the area of the comments page where I put my code and send it to you or post it so that you can see whereabouts it should go…
February 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
That’s exactly the problem I was having, Corrin. But the fact remains it’s things which are coming on to a domain that you’re responsible for. I didn’t used to think twice about deleting crude or rude commenters on my fan sites’ guest book and reporting them to their ISP if necessary but for some reason when it’s come to the blog I’ve been more hesitant, which is wrong of me.
February 5th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
It would be great if you could send me that screencap, Ami-chan. I’m hopeless at working these things out for myself. Mahalo!
February 6th, 2008 at 12:06 am
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2244420421_d9cde9ff1c_o.jpg hopefully this will show it and help you out
it’s the comment.php code.