Comments on: The Best Way to Handle Nasty Blog Comments?

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:21:50 +0000

Absolutely. I find it humorous too that in a majority of cases, the ranter never leaves a link back to their own site. That’s a good indication that they never intended to start a productive discussion.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:19:09 +0000

That discussion is just hilarious! Thank you for sharing this link for an example. Gave me a good laugh!

By: Living off Dividends

Living off Dividends — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:45:30 +0000

as you can see in this post, i get people who like to argue about stuff they’re not experts on.
http://www.livingoffdividends.com/2007/07/26/countrywide-down-finally/

after this banter he replied privately saying that he didn’t want continue reading my blog. I felt that was preferable because morons like him aren’t my target audience anyway.

I’ve started deleting senseless rants too.

By: Lena L. West

Lena L. West — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:39:07 +0000

Thanks for the trackback to my TechForward blog.

I really like your rule of thumb – as long as the conversation is productive, I’m willing to entertain it. If not, it’s gotta go.

Thanks again,

Lena

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:36:13 +0000

I think you summed this up beautifully “It makes the rest shut up, because the bully is reading and commenting along.”

What got me thinking about this was that on Digg comments there are so many more nasty comments than you see anywhere else. I wonder if this is because those comments can’t be deleted. Either the “bully” knows this and uses this as a place to vent, or there really are a lot of nasty comments being said that bloggers are deleting.

Either way, I agree with you – I don’t want someone bullying the readers that I appreciate so much!