How to leave a good comment, and lasting impression on someone’s site
| 26/6/2007 | Posted by Pete under General |
Much has been written on this subject, not all of it good. I thought I would chime in with my tuppence worth. There are three main rules to follow if you comment on this site, which will avoid your comment getting relegated to the spam folder, deleted, or worse, laughed at then one of the above.
Rule 1.
No advertising of sites that are nothing to do with the post. This includes whether you are attempting to get links to viagra, or just trying to get people to your own site. Obviously if you put your own site in the url textbox I am not going to penalise you for that (unless you are advertising the site without posting a valid comment).
Rule 2.
Keep the comment relevant to the topic of the post, or other comments on the post. Any off-topic comments I reserve the right to delete without warning.
Rule 3.
Keep your language clean. I don’t mind disagreements, but if the comment is written in vulgar, inflammatory or otherwise disrespectful, then I WILL delete it. End of story.
Hope this clarifies the commenting policy on this site, and I look forward to receiving more comments.
BTW, and this is directed at you spammers, I run askimet on this site, so your comments won’t ever reach the post, and rest assured that if you do, I will immediately remove them. Why do you waste your time on doing things like this that are pointless anyway?
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Rule 2 seems a bit too restrictive to me. In point of fact, I think it would be fine to accept comments that the commenter plausibly believes might in some way be vaguely relevant to someone else who reads the post. Also, in long comment threads, conversations tend to drift. Of course, blatant threadjacking is odious (unless it is for comedic effect) and is best crushed immediately.
Also, I completely disagree with your ranking of the punitive actions that you might take on an offensive comment. In the event that I discovered that you read this comment, laughed, and decided not to share it with anyone else, I might just possibly feel complimented. It depends on my mood. Instead, I’m more likely to think you’re a nutjob but I can’t be sure until it happens.
Finally and slightly irrelevantly, I’d like to point out that this post neither mentions me nor ROBOTs and as such, I’m unable to decide how many stars to give it so I haven’t clicked on the star bar thingy at the top. Why do you have one anyway?
Thanks for commenting. My intent in Rule 2 is not to stop the discussion going in a different direction, but to stop blatantly irrelevant comments from appearing on the blog. As for punitive actions, I may well be unorthodox, but hey it’s ultimately my choice, right?
I’ve decided not to delete your comment, but I do choose to laugh at it (in a good way, off course
This is a great site
This comment is a fairly extreme version of a conversation going way off the original topic.
Do automatic emoticons drive you nutty? I mean, you clearly typed a close parenthesis and yet it hasn’t shown up as one.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by laughing “off course”.
Also, I forgot to bookmark or RSS this site. Hmm. That’s not true. I chose to do neither. But, I did find it again by searching for myself.
At this point, I don’t know what you do. Do you delete this out of hand? Do you point out that I’m a nutjob for not understanding a typo? Maybe I’ll see. Maybe I won’t. Who knows?
“Off course” is a pun, a type of British humour that is vastly unappreciated, and I’ve managed to go off-topic in the first sentence. Thanks for the commenting and I’m glad you managed to find the site again – must be in the top ten for “Bongo Mirror”. With regards to bookmarking or RSS, I’d much rather you were honest (like you have been) than a blatant lie (if you hadn’t corrected yourself). I won’t even mention the closing bracket/parenthesis/one of these ) things/whatever you call it.
My view is – maybe you’re a bit crazy, but you keep me amuzed (americanism). Oh, and I won’t be bookmarking/rssing your site either, but I should still be able to get back to it quite easily anyway.