The 1-Step Way to Becoming A Comment Leader
“Before we discuss your role as a commenter, you should know that there are many ways in which you can actually hurt your ‘brand’ by commenting on other sites. Please keep in mind the following three basic principles of commenting before we move on…” from ProBlogger.net Guest Post: Muhammad Saleem
Here’s the comment I wote in response to the long thread of comments on the posting. I suggest visiting the 1-Step Way to Becoming A Comment Leader posting to read the posting and all other comments, so you can then read my comment in context.
Hello Muhammad, hi everyone,
This has been a really useful thread of comments for me. I am in the early stages of building my blog and I am finding that I am quite nervous about making mistakes, breaching some invisible unwritten rules of protocol when commenting on other people’s blogs.
So I am very glad of your clear exposition of the do’s and don’ts.
I also enjoyed everyone else’s contributions and got a lot of value from the range of viewpoints.
@Catherine L As regards the your question, how rude is too rude?
I have had only a few comments on my blog so far and they have all been positive. So I have not yet faced the issue of what to do with a rude comment.
So its great to read Catherine’s question and here is my response based on a few moments reflection.
My view on this is I will delete anything that contains profanity for profanity’s sake.
In all my years of participating in online forums, going back to Usenet in the early 90s and FidoNet in the late 80s, I have never particularly appreciated or enjoyed profanity in people’s writing.
There are some rare occasions when profanity works for me in writing, mostly in literature where it is contextually appropriate.
Contextually appropriate profanity can serve some limited useful purpose Informally in speech amongst close aquaintances, while the margin of safety for its contribution to communication is much smaller in writing, there would still be an occasional situation where I would be comfortable in keeping a comment that contained profanity.
As for rudeness, I consider the Golden Rule. Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. There is no point in being offensive and nasty to someone.
Even if someone has already expressed an ignorant or unfortunate point of view that is clearly going to distress others.
No point in adding fuel to the fire.
If I felt that someone was being offensive or rude in a way that may cause another to feel aggrieved, fearful, hurt, or injured, I would not let that rudeness stay on my blog.
This is an interesting subject and I would love to know what others think about it.
Happy days,
Bradley C Hughes
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