A few years ago I’d written an item for a writing site which all of a sudden exploded.
I must have stepped on a number of sore toes because I was getting attacked and attacked.
However, the ‘savings’ of this was that I hadn’t been online for 48 hours so that much of the stuff had been posted two days ago.
Other readers disagreed with the attackers, and my site became a battle ground.
By the time I was putting in my two cents a full scale war had broken out and the number of comments went off the page.
When you get paid for hits, every one of those comments is money in your pocket. And although they may be ugly to look at, (in some respects) you can carry them to the bank.
On another site, one ‘writer’ blocked comments from the most verbose users. It was fantastic. She must of had one comment published and most of the discussion was going on in: “Were Blocked By…” where there were comments going down the page.
The Blocker got zero, the one who wrote the article filled her quota.
Never block comments. Sure, if it’s a guy selling things; as does happen on occasion, okay. If it is someone using your comment section to send messages to his/her/its lover..(and this has happened to me more than once, that is, where the comment section beneath my item became a tryst zone) fine.
But no matter how ugly, let the comment stand. For someone else will see it and respond. Whether they tell you to delete the comment, whether they attack the commentator, whether they go into a philosophical debate as to the right way/wrong way to express disagreement…
A comment is a comment.
Where you get a long line of comments from one person, and have the option of deleting a specific comment but not blocking the user, you can do a selective delete.
For example, on a particular site I had ten comments, (at log on) from Grumpy.
Some of the comments were rather unpleasant. As he had posted that comment two days ago, I deleted it. I went down, and deleted a few he’d made yesterday.
I left four of the latest, posted something, and he came back on, posting, others posting, and I did a kind of back sweep where I would delete comment 1 of yesterday, leave 2,3, delete 4,5,6, ….so that if anyone came on for the first time, they’d see some of his rubbish, but not the most nauseating.
Comments are important. Don’t delete or block until you’ve gotten enough of them to make a tidy sum.
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A comment is a comment. That's true. And if you're in a discussion community where you can earn from interaction, controversial remarks or disagreements are fine. They are even expected if it's a touchy subject. But, other than the monetary aspects, I don't see commenting online in a written form as being any different from talking with a person face-to-face. I'm not going to be rude and discourteous and abusive to you in person. So I'm not going to do it to you online either. I have no control what comes out of another person's mouth, but I can control what I say and write. I can also control what I hear or read. You can spit out all the venom you want. No guarantee I'll read it and/or read and respond. Hit me with your best shot! It could be your contrasting opinions and points of view may give me a great idea and/or help me to solve a difficult problem. It could be like a breakthrough. You never know! :)
That is precisely how I feel. A person has the freedom to write what s/he wants, I have the freedom to not read it. The contrast of opinions is what makes a site lively; not just the 'I agree'.
There is just so much one can digest when it comes to comments that are rude. Just as there is freedom of speech so does one have the freedom to block that which is unpalatable.
When you are getting paid per comment, why cut your own pocket?
I was engaged in a certain group in facebook its a community of people about paranormal things, like legends, and true to life stories but i was always pissed off with them! Maybe because of their own ignorance that can't even justify their own verdict with a particular subject and most of them are keep laughing behind your back when in fact they are definetly laughing at themselves for knowing anything but ignorance. So, i stop arguing and ignore them. Truly, as the saying goes you cannot win an argument with an ignorant.
In Jamaica we say; "When you argue with an idiot it is hard to remember who is the idiot.