View Commentators as Party Guests

A personal blog is your controlled equality, so you are truly free to prohibit whomever you like that rubs you the wrong way from commenting on your site.

The problem is that going all commando on a rogue commentator that may annoy you or disagree with you is its not exactly in the spirit of the freedom of speech on the internet.

Some of the best blogs out there allow a certain amount of controversy and if you are going to write and publish to the net then you should accept the fact that responses are not going to be 100% in view of what you say.      

This is merely common sense and something that writers have known for years.  However it does not mean you have to put up with foul mouth commentators on your site that may ruin the overall atmosphere you are trying to provide for your readers.

When taking action you have to give the benefit of doubt and view your commentators as party guests. Suggestion, if one of these rogue commentators is in fact making an uncomfortable blog environment for the other readers it’s time for a firm warning informing them that the next offense will result in a permanent ban from the site. 

Setting guidelines as of what constitutes a ban from the site from the beginning is an excellent method and is completely your call.  Just figure out what type of atmosphere you want to maintain on your site and then set your guidelines.

August 30, 2007 | posted in Talk, The Net 

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11 Responses to “View Commentators as Party Guests”

  1. Hoto on August 30th, 2007

    here is the first guest to that party. hr hr where are the drinks.

  2. Izabael DaJinn on August 31st, 2007

    Completely WRONG!! You should ban anyone who disagrees with you immediately!!! …oh wait a second….

    ;-)

  3. Life is Colourful on August 31st, 2007

    Izabael gets on the hitlist ;) - I hope the cross-hair is not on me.

  4. Life is Colourful on September 1st, 2007

    By the way, I think you use the same plugin for “Top commentators” downloaded from pfadvice.com - this plugin stopped working I think. My blog also removed the list of top commentators same as yours.

  5. Jason Neuman on September 1st, 2007

    I have it set to start over each month. It has settings that you can set so that the section starts over each month or keeps adding up.

  6. Life is Colourful on September 1st, 2007

    Oops my bad - I forgot it’s change of month and the list is reset on both the blogs… LOL! So much of spam - I apologize. You may club the comments if possible.

  7. Tom on September 2nd, 2007

    I say ban the haters and people who disagree haha

  8. digitalnomad on September 6th, 2007

    Can’t find any thing in this post to disagree about. Certainly sounds reasonable to me. I actually know some bloggers that try to be controversial for the sport of it.

  9. RennyBA on September 9th, 2007

    I’m new here, so let me first say hello from Norway!

    I do agree with you as you have to take the bad with the good. Of course it depends on the subject and how controversial it is, but also one have to accept diversity. A firm hint replied in a mail, could be a good start too.

  10. Traveller on September 10th, 2007

    Completely agree! I think of spammers as the party crashers of the worst kind. You are perfectly justified if you threw them out of the door. For the rest, your recommendation is absolutely spot on. :)

  11. Monavie on May 22nd, 2008

    Haha great post. Sounds just like raising children - Agree to disagree, but don’t let them be rude to anyone about it. Give ‘em the old time out.

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