Comment Policy
I’m Sire and I’m a Blogaholic! The problem is, unless I get lots of comments I’m just not getting the complete fix that I am craving for. But I don’t just want any comment, I want the sort where commentators have put a bit of thought into. I believe that comments on a post add to the blogging experience of all readers as long as they pertain to the post itself.
To encourage comments I have enabled ‘dofollow’ so you can be assured your comments will be picked up by the search engines. I have also installed the commentluv plugin that will parse your last post providing a link to it. I also proudly display the “You Comment And I Will Comment Back On Your Blog” badge.
But that’s not all! I’ve also incorporated a threaded comment plugin so that you can actually reply to a particular comment and not tag it on the end of everyone else’s. Lastly I’ve installed the keywordLuv plugin. This means you can leave a keyword along with your name. Remember, name first and only two keywords, any more and your comment will be deleted.
There may be some that think I am being a bit harsh and that I should accept all comments but the thing is I take pride in my posts and I want to be able to show the same pride in the quality of my comments, as should you. I would also appreciate if commentators do not use ‘keywords’ as their name. If you do I reserve the right to delete the comment or change the name, whichever takes my fancy at the time.
If your comment manages to see the light of day then you can give yourself a pat on the back because it has passed my stringent quality tests. As I reserve the right to edit or delete comments and to moderate any ensuing threads you can also be ensured that this is a family friendly blog that does not allow any phobic content that may be based on race, sex, nationality, religion or whatever.
To those who do leave comments, I will reciprocate with a comment on your blog, unless you have broken one of the rules, and hopefully others will follow suit and we can develop well intentioned and thoughtful communication within our growing community.
Having said that I would like to stress one exception to the rule and that is I will not leave a comment on any blog that I find distasteful, such as blogs that promote porn, are written specifically to stimulate, provoke, or Incite hatred against any person, group, race or religion or anything else that I do not agree with.
One last point, if your comment is only one line in length, I may not bother to return the favor.
As things are getting pretty busy on the blog, and because of my post about not commenting on Blogger blogs I will only reciprocate the comment to a Blogger blog if I feel they’ve left an exceptional comment.
I don’t blame you for trying so hard to make sure you’ve got quality comments. Unfortunately, there are way too many people out there who only leave comments in order to leave links to their sites or want to spam out your comment section.
A bit harsh? No. It’s your blog, honey. You have every right to expect viable comments. Besides, it wouldn’t be a BlogSire blog if there wasn’t a bit of controversy in there somewhere. LOL
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Controversy, yep that could well be my middle name Christine. As for the spam and the crappy comments, it’s a good thing that I allow myself the privilege of booting them off and boot them off I will.
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Gotta respect a solid comment policy.
Sometimes I don’t comment on a blog because there are already so many comments and many of them are crap… even if I thought I had something reasonable to say.
Comment luv is getting huge… maybe I should install it too :P
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There’s nothing wrong with a bit of comment luv now is there? As for those blogs that have way too many comments, if I have something to say I normally scroll to the bottom and say it. Even if I may be rehashing something that has already been said I reckon I’d probably put a different spin on it. Yeah, I know I’m being slack but when you hit the big 50 you need to live your life as efficiently as possible.
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I like this policy – Do you moderate all comments? Also, you mention disabling “no follow”, but you don’t say how.
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Deborah, the first comment always goes to the moderation panel, but once it is approved all other comments are instantly published. Having said that I still scrutinize all comments and delete those that I feel are not worthy of being published.
As for making this a ‘do follow’ I am using one of the many do follow plugins that are available for the WordPress platform.
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I agree with your post. Which is not something I will usually do! :) I enjoy reading a post that will make one think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
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Keywordluv is a great tool to encourage commenting and discussion on your blog. The reader is rewarded with a useful backlink for leaving a relevant comment to the discussion.
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That is true but there are many who abuse it, but it is their loss as their comments get deleted.
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Keyword Luv is great tool both for site owner & site user.
Thanks to share
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Keyword Luv has made a tremendous difference in my blogging as it helps bring in more traffic which ultimately translates into $$$$.
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Sire Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:38 am
Cool, maybe you could send some of that my way.
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As my knowledge KeywordLuv is a WordPress plugin, which rewards your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their website in the comments.
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You got that right Umair
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Hi There,
All i would say here is that, we bloggers all strive to get meaningful comments which will improve traffic and ratings. I’m sad to point out that while KeywordLuv and CommentLuv increase traffic and therefore also comments, they also tend to attract spammers.
Spammers give me a tough time, but ther isn’t much that we can do about them :-(
BTW, what do you do to stay away from spam since you have also installed the commentluv plugin?
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Sire Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 5:40 am
It’s simple Elina, I do what all good bloggers should do, I spam the obvious spam comments and delete the ones that did not put any effort into their comment.
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Unfortunately, there are always those who abuse everything that is potentially good. That’s true in the blogging world as well as everywhere else.
In my quest to find good solutions for spammers, I cam accross someone who claims that spammers help your blog’s ranking just like any other comments. I wonder if there is any truth to that?!
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Sounds like crap to me Hanna. Even if there was some truth to it I will continue to delete them as it’s my opinion they bring the value of the blog down and that is more important than ranking.
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I installed a new PC and don’t remember what you wanted me to use in the “What Do They Call You?” field. As you know in most blogs and Social Networking sites I use Internet Strategist. For those that use KeywordLuv I use Internet Strategist @GrowMap.
One blog I frequent prefers I use GrowMap, someone (you?) used to change it to I.S. or IS and to make the few who insist on names happy I have a pen name that I use when pressed.
If you tell me here what you want me to use I can look it up when I can’t remember. Feel free to change the field in this comment as needed. :-)
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Sire Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Hey IS, I will refer to you as IS as it so much easier than writing the Internet Strategist as it is a bit of a mouthful. Internet Strategist is fine as I now know that is what you actually go by on you blog.
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Internet Strategist from GrowMap Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Thanks Sire. I was about to comment on and share another post and could not remember. One of these days I hope to get caught up and visit more often.
I really like the dark brown used in your replies on the tan comments. Looks great. Did you see the new logo on my blog? Working on the post, attributions, and then will change Avatars and Gravatar to match.
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Sire Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Choosing the color of the comment box is one of the many attributes of this theme IS, and it’s why I love it so much.
Yes I did and t I thought it was really good. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us.
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It is really advisable that there should be guidelines in leaving comments in order to avoid spams. And also, it a good way to interact with other people.
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That’s true Claire, in fact it’s good policy to have guidelines in almost all facets of life.
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Hi. I saw your link via Extremejohn.com’s Alexa page. I think its a great idea to have posted this as to what you expect from commenters. I have many people, as I’m sure you’ve had, that simply put ‘nice blog’ or some bull crap like that and that’s it. Makes one wonder if they even read the article :( I think people leaving comments like that are really disrespecting our work. I’ll bookmark your site and be back.
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Thanks Christa for a great comment, and I’m not surprised that you’ve come from ExtremeJohn’s blog as he’s done an awesome job on it.
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I agree that guidelines are necessary. However, do you guys believe that people pay attention to them?
I post rules/guidelines on my blogs but I still get stupid comments like “that real nice, thanks.”
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Of course not, but when they don’t it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling when I SPAM them!
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I agree that spam comments are useless to any blog, and with comment policies, it can help somewhat. But do you all think that plugins like keywordluv encourages spamming?
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Sire Reply:
August 17th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Sure it does, but it also encourages commenting and that’s worth the small effort of deleting spam.
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I have to say it is disappointing when people take advantage of a great plugin like Keyword Luv. I let my vistors know that if they do not leave quality comments they will not get a link and they still try to spam the heck out of it. I wish they would just spend a couple of minutes to write a comment worthy of approval. Thanks for the great post
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It is a little, but most that try that on this blog get their comment deleted or delinked so they’re just wasting their time.
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@Kristella: Girl, you just hit the nail in the head. Of recent I went all out to participate in one of them blog commenting contest and after 10 meaty comments, I realized the blog just wasn’t worth my comments at all. Not even for the money. The blog was plagued with dumb, useless comments most of which could not be understood due to language barrier. People just kept posting one line comments referencing what had already been said in the posts or saying “that’s right. Content is king for sure. Keep blogging”
It was chaos.
@Sire: I’m seeing a lot of comments here that are from people that spam Keywordluv blogs. I’m 100% sure cos I recognize their names instantly from certain posts on my blog. They always only comment on posts that mention commentluv and keywordluv. They finally made me shut down my Keywordluv post after 74 comments. Some are so stupid that they even use my contact form to send me their comments. LMAO.
Spammers will go to any length to get their foot thru the door.
You’re evil! LOL. I don’t get that warm fuzzy feeling when people don’t respect my comment policy. Most times, I get pissed especially when it’s beyond obvious that it’s carefully crafted spam. I’ll take your hint and probably start delinking all comments that fail to follow my policy ;)
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Udegbunam, as long as they supply a name I don’t mind them using keywords, as that’s what keywordluv is all about. I try to allow for differences in language, at least they try.
I’m sure I miss a few here and there, but I assure you I delete or delink more than I let through.
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That was quite poignant. Even if I don’t make the cut I thought I would let you know I appreciated your sentiment.
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Sire Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Hey Anne, I reckon I’ll let you slip through
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Anne (previous commenter) left a link to your Comment Policy over at her blog and I couldn’t help but take a peek.
You are so honest! Chuckled when thinking about you sitting there not getting your fix, sifting through spam comments sand wondering why you ever started blogging in the first place. :)
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Sire Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
Why thanks so much Heather, it’s so nice of you to say so.
Note to self….thank Anne for sending Heather, and check out Heather’s site.
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Sire, I’m feeling a little lost. It’s been a couple weeks since I was here and feel in love with the blogging tips. I’m enjoying these reviews of the money making systems but I’m curious is this is a regular focus of yours I’d missed or if this is a new shift for you… and if so, what lead you into this journey? I’m about to begin a hunt for revenue streams as well so this is definitely great information! Is this being your favorite results wise so far?
Kimberly
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Sire Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I’ve always been interested in trialling these things Kimberley and when I do I post about it here. I’ll always publish the results so that others can learn from my experience.
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Sire, I don’t see a problem with a robust comments policy, besides you own the site so you should have complete control over content.
I have had comments on one or two of my blogs that were really just gibberish! Total nonsense!
I have learn’t quite a lot from reading interesting and diverse blogs.
All things considered are you still pleased you installed KeyWordLove?
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Sire Reply:
February 16th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
All considered most do the right thing and it’s so easy to spam or delete a comment that it doesn’t bother me when I have to do it.
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You run your blog just like mine. I believe in rewarding people who contribute to my blog, but if they spam I punch them through my screen and mark it as spam. It’s the way to go. P.S. I’m new here and would like to say wassssup.
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Sire Reply:
March 25th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Hey Anthony, it’s nice to see you here, and I’m glad to meet a fellow blogger who feels as I do.
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I think you strike a good balance, between offering a dofollow link and making sure that your blog does NOT end up looking spammy.
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Good grief, now I’m nervous!
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Sire Reply:
September 6th, 2010 at 12:24 am
Why So Kissie?
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