Sometimes, the people who comment first said: IM FIRST, JAJAJAJA. I WIN… This is a stupid comment,

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Catherine does bring up a good point with regard to negative comments. I read one extremely rude comment on her blog, and the author remained “anonymous for fear of confrontation”.

Although she defended herself very well, in her answer, being a commenter who followed that “interaction”, I felt the negativity had tainted the her comment section.

But, regarding this post… I expect more quality from it. Specially when I’m visiting Problogger.

This has been a really useful thread of comments for me. I am in the early stages of building my blog and I am finding that I am quite nervous about making mistakes, breaching some invisible unwritten rules of protocol when commenting on other people’s blogs.

So I am very glad of your clear exposition of the do’s and don’ts.

I also enjoyed everyone else’s contributions and got a lot of value from the range of viewpoints.

@Catherine L As regards the your question, how rude is too rude?

I have had only a few comments on my blog so far and they have all been positive. So I have not yet faced the issue of what to do with a rude comment.

So its great to read Catherine’s question and here is my response based on a few moments reflection.

My view on this is I will delete anything that contains profanity for profanity’s sake.

In all my years of participating in online forums, going back to Usenet in the early 90s and FidoNet in the late 80s, I have never particularly appreciated or enjoyed profanity in people’s writing.

There are some rare occasions when profanity works for me in writing, mostly in literature where it is contextually appropriate.

Contextually appropriate profanity can serve some limited useful purpose Informally in speech amongst close aquaintances, while the margin of safety for its contribution to communication is much smaller in writing, there would still be an occasional situation where I would be comfortable in keeping a comment that contained profanity.

As for rudeness, I consider the Golden Rule. Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. There is no point in being offensive and nasty to someone.

Even if someone has already expressed an ignorant or unfortunate point of view that is clearly going to distress others.

No point in adding fuel to the fire.

If I felt that someone was being offensive or rude in a way that may cause another to feel aggrieved, fearful, hurt, or injured, I would not let that rudeness stay on my blog.

This is an interesting subject and I would love to know what others think about it.

Happy days,

Bradley C Hughes

So, Muhammed, with that in mind, I’m wondering if it is best to delete comments which are terribly abusive.

I have had a couple of v rude comments recently and I left them up. But, I wouldn’t like to think people reading them could be influenced by the comments that some mean person has made.

What do you think? How rude is too rude and when is it time to hit the delete key?

Did you know that leaders of birds flying north to south and return actually take turns being at the lead of their V-formation?

Did you also know that this V-formation of the flog (i.e. a group whereby everyone harmoniously gets along with each other, each doing their own, individual, important bit), gives them a tremendous advantage in speed? How much?

Wild goose flying in a V-formation get 70% more effectiveness that way.

This is actually a snippet of a blog entry on birds that’s still in draft format. I could not resist spilling the beans here though… :-)
Interesting insights like this on alternative health, healing and personal development can be found at my blog.

Namaste,
A. Lee, We Are One World Healing

As you said, we should have something to add to the discussion whenever we comment.

So here is my original piece: I saw one commenter mention above the debate between “being a brand and versus being yourself.” And, yes I think this is a difficult call especially if you’ve built your blog (and hence your blog personality) as your brand. Making the difficult call and differentiating between the two may be blogosphere suicide (or perhaps a slight maiming) of your blog “reputation”… and in that case, I would leave in the reserves, a blogger alias for just such a divergence from character.

But then the new question is, which blog do you link back to? (lol)

Excellent point Joanna. I totally agree.

Sure submitting a comment early on in the game is great, but every word counts. Especially when their is a conversation taking place amongst readers. I don’t think comments should ever be viewed as an authority game.

Sometimes, believe it or not, I leave comments JUST BECAUSE I HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD. Because I have a wide range of interests, I’m often reading and commenting at sites that have nothing to do with my blog. I don’t expect visitors from that, don’t even particularly want to attract them because they are bound to be disappointed.

Sometimes a comment is just a comment.

Have a terrific week

Have a terrific week

At first I was nervous when my comments started getting more attention than the forum, but I learned to let things happen, and it’s been great for my site.