My Comment Policy
As this blog continues to grow, I expect the number of comments left to increase as well. While moderating the current level of comments isn’t much of a hassle, I think it would be wise to lay the groundwork for when it reaches that level. So, to that end, I’m going to lay out my official and yet fairly simple comment policy.
- First and foremost, if your comment is not providing anything of value, it will likely be deleted. Comments such as “Nice!” or “Great post” are simply not necessary and don’t improve the conversation in any way. This one rule will probably take care of most issues but just in case, there are a few more as well.
- No comment signatures containing links will be allowed. You are allowed to link your name to your site already, an extra link simply takes up space and is one more thing for me to check out.
- Links to adult sites or sites with questionable content will be deleted. This includes any site I determine to be spam. I realize any links placed in comments is no followed but I value my readers and their time and I don’t want them wasting that time on useless or trashy sites.
- Last but not least, only comments left in English will be accepted. I have nothing against other languages, in fact at some point I hope to learn a couple myself. However, as of right now, I only speak and read English and therefore would not be able to vouch for the content of non-English comments or sites.
So, there you have it ladies and gents, Blogging Experiment’s official comment policy. Like I said, it won’t change the way comments work much right now, but as we continue to grow and attract new commentators, I think this will help streamline the process. Thanks, and have a great weekend everyone!
Oh, I almost forgot, if you have a question you’d like answered in Monday’s Reader Question Session, drop it in a comment or an email to me and I’ll add it to the list. I think we already have a couple submissions but it’s always nice to have lots of options. So ask away!
Comments
Alexander September 7th, 2007
Sweeet!
Liberty and New Creation September 7th, 2007
Great post! …
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I wanted to throw a question into the mix.
What is your single greatest source of inspiration for writing material, and how to avoid information overload?
Sometimes I end up reading so much stuff that I paralyze my abilities.
Ben Cook September 7th, 2007
@ Alexander, everyone’s a comedian aren’t they?
HMTKSteve September 8th, 2007
I hear you have website that sells pills? How I get some of them?
Just kidding! I get a ton of those sorts of comments in my spam ban as well as “I googled for something completely different and found this instead!” Or I get, “I didn’t understand everything in the article but it was a good read.”
Once you start getting 500 Spam comments in your spam bin every day on your blog you will have “made it”.
PreBlogging September 11th, 2007
nice post !
What I do for links to questionable sites is replace the dots with underscores. So if someone really wants to find out the link they can.
So http://www.preblogging.com/ would look like http://www_prebloggin_com/ which won’t transfer any link love, and if someone wants to visit it they can by altering the url once they have clicked on it.
Becky
Nathan Chapman September 12th, 2007
Just found your site and it’s great!
Anyways, a reader question here:
I am just curious, what plugins do you use? I’m just trying to find some that would work nice for my Design blog, (which ive linked to)
anyways, thanks. Nathan
Ben Cook September 12th, 2007
@ Nathan, welcome to the site, I’m glad you like it. Almost all of the plugins I use are covered on this site and classified under the WordPress Plugins category. I have installed a couple new ones that I need to cover but nothing major. I probably should do a running list of the plugins I use as I was actually asked this question on IM last night. Thanks for the question!
Michael Yates September 25th, 2007
It’s a good policy. I should probably incorporate something like it myself.