Published something that you felt was perfect to you online? Every blog has a comments section, for each post, you can turn the comments on or off, well, for WordPress anyway. There times when comments left on your post were hurtful and totally refute your point of view. While some are pointing out their views, others may not be and try to be abusive.
You get hurt and upset because of such abusive comments and feel like closing down your blog after that. Trust me, I’ve seen a few. How do you manage your comments then? Here are 5 things you must do.
- Word verifications - Boy, I love them. It’s a hassle to the user but you don’t want spam comments that don’t contribute to your post at all. Now, if only this plugin can be used here.
- Moderate comments - Some love to market their blogs that sell things, are they helpful at all?
- Publish both negative and positive comments - I have done that unless they are spam.
- Reply to commentors - I try to if I know what to say which is often not that difficult.
- Payback the commentors - I visit their blogs and put my comments whenever I can.
Do read the link that I provided because there are many more tips on How to Live Online.
Nice writeup. Too bad, not many people practise them. I think there’s one more thing that’s important… Netiquette.
@ET
Yes, netiquette is something that not everyone practise either. There are trolls who find it exhilarating for themselves to bash other people with cruel words.
WordPress.com doesn’t have CAPTCHA (or word verification) feature but they have Akismet, the most powerful spam filter for blog comments out there. So who care about CAPTCHA when there’s spam filtering feature.
@Webzoomr
Yes, it’s quite powerful. I’ve caught quite a lot of spam using here. Sometimes, I’ve seen those comments that are not spam accidentally being caught which is quite rare, so it’s good.