Comments on: Life in the Blogosphere: Comment Moderation or Censorship?

By: Nona

Nona — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:08:46 +0000

I've never moderated my comments, though some do get lost into my spam filters. Nona's last blog post..Exhausted to the point of zombification

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:07:43 +0000

I do moderate my comments, simply to stop the spam that doesn’t get caught by Akismet. If someone disagrees with anything I post, that’s fine. Comments like that will get approved.

I draw the line at abusive posts, and I’ll asterisk out expletives if I come across them, but that’s about it.

I don’t have a written comment policy, though, I may do one up in the future.

Rod’s last blog post..Would you blog differently if you had a Million Dollars?

By: A Blog about Nothing

A Blog about Nothing — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:25:32 +0000

I have neither the time nor the desire to moderate comments. If the comment is so awful that I feel a need to moderate it (personal attacks, and things along those lines) I’ll probably just delete it and ban the offending party, but beyond that I’m not going to shove my words down peoples throats.

A Blog about Nothing’s last blog post..A penny saved

By: lissie

lissie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:27:52 +0000

I would love to have unmoderated comments- but I get more spam than anything else some of which is obscene -and I dont want to be banned from Adsense! Everything that is not spam I allow though

lissie’s last blog post..A new type of Social Networking - Blogging Zoom

By: Saedel

Saedel — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:49:09 +0000

Got this site from BloggingZoom… the topic is interesting so I decided to comment.

In my site, the comment will automatically appear if the reader has a previously approved comment. I have few loyal readers and they enjoy the luxury of commenting without the censorship, since I already know that they wouldn’t post any mean remarks about me or the site itself.

Regarding spam, Akismet does a pretty good job filtering them.

Saedel’s last blog post..Dear BlogRush, Have You Forsaken Me?

By: Frank C

Frank C — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:37:58 +0000

I moderate posts that contain links in order to prevent comment spam. I also have a few words that can cause a post to end up in the moderate queue. But, as long as it isn’t spam I’ll post it.

I did have someone censor a comment when I disagreed with them. In response, I expanded my comment into a blog post that ended up getting a lot of traffic.
Frank C’s last blog post..5 Questions Double Whammy Meme Tag

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By: Hair Loss Solution

Hair Loss Solution — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:06:09 +0000

Same here, even I hate to go back and check whether the comment has got approved or not. I hate blogs where they take ages to approve 1 comment. I mean who has the time to wait……

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:38:47 +0000

I don’t moderate comments, though I have deleted two: one was spam and the other was from someone I know in real life who revealed personal details about where I live.

I find it annoying when I write a comment and then see that it has to await the blog owner’s approval. I very seldom go back to check, so I don’t know how many, if any, of my comments have been disallowed.

By: supertiff

supertiff — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:07:03 +0000

my site automatically moderates my comments even though i don’t want it to. i tried to turn it off, but the closest i could get was that comments will show up immediately if they come from a person who has commented at least 2x before…so, first time commenters are moderated. this really bothers me, because i think it’s a big step for readers to make that first comment, and i want it to be a positve experience, you know? i don’t want them to feel judged.

i have people disagree with me occassionally, but so far everyone has done so in an acceptable fashion. i think my readers know that i’m really sensitive, and they try to take that into consideration when they disagree with me. and i love them for it!
i love them even more for disagreeing…i would hate to use my blog as a simple tool for getting myself consistently patted on the back or whatever.

once, two years ago, an ‘anonymous’ person left a really mean and ranty comment that was overly hateful: in it, my mother and myself we called some really hateful and inappropriate names.

i deleted it, and then i felt bad, even though the comment was disgusting and offered only hate with no relevance to anything discussed in the post.

so, i guess that’s my answer. down with moderation! of course, we can’t make everyone agree: some people just want to feel validated all the time. but, i have to admit, when i come across blogs like that, i really wonder about the integrity of what i’m reading.

thanks for bringing this up (again). i think i’m actually going to put a comment ‘policy’ on my site, so that people will know that they are encouraged to say whatever they want.

supertiff’s last blog post..october 23, again.