You know it is kind of funny when you read a really good blog post and decide to add your thoughts on the topic to the article. After submitting you find out that this company/person is fearful of blog commenters and your comment gets sent to the monitor of the blog. So how does this make a commenter feel when they notice their comment went into the abyss and who knows if it will see the light of day?
I’ll tell you.
They feel like they wasted their time and more importantly they probably write you off and decide not to come back to your blog since their time is very valuable.
Don’t be afraid of blog comments, embrace them! In two years and some-hundred blog posts, the number of spam comments or nasty comments has been next to nil. That being said and I do not monitor things. We just let you post whatever you want in the comments section of our blog.
So I challenge you… show me what an ugly, evil comment might be and let me show you how I deal with this sort of thing. Have at it. Post anything you want on this article and we will deal with everything you post.
The reason for this article is we need to help people overcome their fear of comments. Blogging and social media are all about networking and being social.
What would happen at a cocktail party if you were engaging people and not allowing them to participate in the conversation? You’d probably end up being avoided, wearing a drink or worse getting your butt kicked by someone who just had enough of your rudeness.
It is the same thing online.
People will start avoiding you because you are speaking at them and not letting them in on the conversation.
Everyone join together, let’s have a conversation. Can’t we all just get along?
Leave your thoughts below.
I’ll tell you Dale. I freakin hate spammers. So far this week, one of our blogs has received 70 spam comments from spammers. I’d be willing to bet that if we gave the death penalty to spammers, fewer people would moderate comments on their blogs.
I’ll tell you Dale. I freakin hate spammers. So far this week, one of our blogs has received 70 spam comments from spammers. I’d be willing to bet that if we gave the death penalty to spammers, fewer people would moderate comments on their blogs.
Wow Rick! I am really surprised at that. Which blog is getting spammed so much? I’d love to look it over and see if I could help you figure out why. I must say, I too would vote for death of spammers. I do not have a problem moderating and deleting spam from my blog, but I am frustrated when I share my valuable time with and then the do not post my comment for a week or whenever they get around to posting it. This is a disservice to me (the commenter) and to the audience reading the blog. Blogs should really be focused on opening up a conversation not just a lecture series by the blogger. There are other forms for that (static web pages).
Wow Rick! I am really surprised at that. Which blog is getting spammed so much? I’d love to look it over and see if I could help you figure out why. I must say, I too would vote for death of spammers. I do not have a problem moderating and deleting spam from my blog, but I am frustrated when I share my valuable time with and then the do not post my comment for a week or whenever they get around to posting it. This is a disservice to me (the commenter) and to the audience reading the blog. Blogs should really be focused on opening up a conversation not just a lecture series by the blogger. There are other forms for that (static web pages).
Great post and it really got me thinking. Currently I monitor the comments on my blog because of spammers. Unfortunately I get a ton of these. I’m a bit worried that the links that these spammers leave may contain viruses or spyware and I certainly don’t want my clients/readers clicking those!
Great post and it really got me thinking. Currently I monitor the comments on my blog because of spammers. Unfortunately I get a ton of these. I’m a bit worried that the links that these spammers leave may contain viruses or spyware and I certainly don’t want my clients/readers clicking those!
Carmen, thanks for you input. Honestly, only recently had a gotten much spam on the blogs on this site. I still prefer people to have free reign with their comments. I do remove these spam based comments with links all through them. I also hope my readers do not get viruses from the links. Since the spam comments are not relevant to the article or the other comments, I would hope my readers would recognize these comments as spam before I remove them. I’m wondering if there is a way to add captcha software to add the human only entry of alpha-numeric images codes. Anyone ever use these on forms or on blog comments? Are these possible to use on blog comments? I’m not sure. It’ll be interesting to hear peoples thoughts on this.
Carmen, thanks for you input. Honestly, only recently had a gotten much spam on the blogs on this site. I still prefer people to have free reign with their comments. I do remove these spam based comments with links all through them. I also hope my readers do not get viruses from the links. Since the spam comments are not relevant to the article or the other comments, I would hope my readers would recognize these comments as spam before I remove them. I’m wondering if there is a way to add captcha software to add the human only entry of alpha-numeric images codes. Anyone ever use these on forms or on blog comments? Are these possible to use on blog comments? I’m not sure. It’ll be interesting to hear peoples thoughts on this.
Dale, as you know, I have two blogs. Both of them get 20-30 spam comments a day. One I monitor because it’s mine and I don’t want any spam to see the light of day. One is Dave’s and the spam gets through. I let every comment through unless it’s obviously spam even if it’s some dope trying to promote to my readers. I just really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, don’t like spam.
Dale, as you know, I have two blogs. Both of them get 20-30 spam comments a day. One I monitor because it’s mine and I don’t want any spam to see the light of day. One is Dave’s and the spam gets through. I let every comment through unless it’s obviously spam even if it’s some dope trying to promote to my readers. I just really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, don’t like spam.