Saturday, May 10, 2008
Even Newer Comments Policy
In an effort to eliminate one of the factors that has discouraged me from blogging, I will from now on be deleting comments that annoy me. If you find your comment having mysteriously disappeared, it will most likely be because it annoyed me. To the extent that I continue blogging, it's because I enjoy doing so, and not to read and sometimes respond to annoying comments.
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Wait. You hadn't blogged since the end of February and you come back and the first thing you do is bitch about commenters?! That's rich.
I'm up for encouraging you to blog!
Let me suggest "comment moderation" as an alternative to deleting the negatives. I had a handful of people who ranged from mildly irritating to hugely annoying in their comment behavior. I would wake up and check the blog to see if any of them had commented. Usually at least one did. And then I would ponder how irritated I felt -- wnough to delete? Not enough? ANd then it struck me -- the entire EXERCISE is so unpleasant -- waking up, thinking that the comment already had poisened air space for several hours -- that I finally said enough. Moderation doesn't work for people who get dozens and dozens of comments, but for those who get a handful -- it really is a blessing.
And I finally said NO to anyone who does not sign their writing. A comment that's a tease from a recurring blog reader (whoever he or she may be) is less irritating than one from someone who wont even make up a blgo name for him or herself.
On the up side: I can't tell you how good it feels to blog regularly.
Welcome back!
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Let me suggest "comment moderation" as an alternative to deleting the negatives. I had a handful of people who ranged from mildly irritating to hugely annoying in their comment behavior. I would wake up and check the blog to see if any of them had commented. Usually at least one did. And then I would ponder how irritated I felt -- wnough to delete? Not enough? ANd then it struck me -- the entire EXERCISE is so unpleasant -- waking up, thinking that the comment already had poisened air space for several hours -- that I finally said enough. Moderation doesn't work for people who get dozens and dozens of comments, but for those who get a handful -- it really is a blessing.
And I finally said NO to anyone who does not sign their writing. A comment that's a tease from a recurring blog reader (whoever he or she may be) is less irritating than one from someone who wont even make up a blgo name for him or herself.
On the up side: I can't tell you how good it feels to blog regularly.
Welcome back!
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