When writing blog posts I do this to express my opinion and/or tell about my personal life to make things for myself clear and (hopefully) improve my English. At this point: A big "Thank you!" to the admins for providing this possibility on the site. Having my own blog by simply joining a forum is really cool. There have been some comments I did not like: I don’t like negative feedback without any reason or impertinent comments. This is bad style. Nevertheless: Deleting them never came to my mind. Even if the comments are not helpful at all (like calling me an idiot or my text stupid without any kind of reason). Those unhelpful comments at least made me laugh and feel somewhat good.
Agreement and positive comments are fine. I think everybody likes positive feedback. But I do like different opinions – with reason(s) – as well. These are often the most helpful comments making me think in various directions or forcing me to find more arguments or better explanations for my own point of view. And most important: They may – if not really change – influence my point of view a bit.
I have seen some blog posts in the past with disappearing comments – or even the removal of the complete article – presumably because of different opinions or critique in the comments. I think this is sad and a missed opportunity. I can handle disagreement. If I do not want people to react to my thoughts I do not upload them to a blog with commentary functions. Blogs without such functions do exist. Building my own echo chamber by deleting “unwanted” comments is useless for me.
Agreement and positive comments are fine. I think everybody likes positive feedback. But I do like different opinions – with reason(s) – as well. These are often the most helpful comments making me think in various directions or forcing me to find more arguments or better explanations for my own point of view. And most important: They may – if not really change – influence my point of view a bit.
Law and the site rules. Thankfully it is not up to me to decide whether some comment is okay with the rules or not. This means I only have deleted one single comment on all of my blog posts and that was my own answer to a comment deleted by the mods. Keeping an answer to a deleted comment was simply unnecessary and possibly confusing.
The only situation I can image where I would use the possibility for “moderating” my blog is when I would see extremely illegal things like child abuse. In such a case deleting comments myself is better than waiting for somebody else to do this. Such things have to disappear as soon as possible.
The only situation I can image where I would use the possibility for “moderating” my blog is when I would see extremely illegal things like child abuse. In such a case deleting comments myself is better than waiting for somebody else to do this. Such things have to disappear as soon as possible.
I have seen some blog posts in the past with disappearing comments – or even the removal of the complete article – presumably because of different opinions or critique in the comments. I think this is sad and a missed opportunity. I can handle disagreement. If I do not want people to react to my thoughts I do not upload them to a blog with commentary functions. Blogs without such functions do exist. Building my own echo chamber by deleting “unwanted” comments is useless for me.
