Comments on: New blogs and their comment policies http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:48:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Eoin http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100740 Eoin Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:50:30 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100740 Hi Tom, Good to meet you on Saturday - sorry I couldn't stay. In your post above, you say that <blockquote>having open comments on your blog is the only way to engage in a conversation. Otherwise you are not engaging with your readership</blockquote> I'm entirely with you on this. Blogging works best when it’s a dialogue (diablog?) between blogger and reader rather than a monologue (monoblog?) simply on the part of the declaiming blogger. So, I agree as a matter of principle that comments should be open (and akismet is great at dealing with spam - over 200 today, all caught by it). For the same reason, I thoroughly disapprove of the usual Google requirement to login with a google account to comment on a google/blogger/blogspot blog (many/most of them don't give the option to post without logging in). Eoin. Hi Tom,

Good to meet you on Saturday - sorry I couldn’t stay. In your post above, you say that

having open comments on your blog is the only way to engage in a conversation. Otherwise you are not engaging with your readership

I’m entirely with you on this. Blogging works best when it’s a dialogue (diablog?) between blogger and reader rather than a monologue (monoblog?) simply on the part of the declaiming blogger. So, I agree as a matter of principle that comments should be open (and akismet is great at dealing with spam - over 200 today, all caught by it). For the same reason, I thoroughly disapprove of the usual Google requirement to login with a google account to comment on a google/blogger/blogspot blog (many/most of them don’t give the option to post without logging in).

Eoin.

]]> By: MacManX.com | Blogroll Dive: 2/26/07 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100124 MacManX.com | Blogroll Dive: 2/26/07 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:43:53 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100124 [...] Tom ruminated on restricted [...] [...] Tom ruminated on restricted [...]

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100055 Tom Raftery Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:29:40 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100055 Karlin, what works really well for me is turn on Akismet, set it to delete comments on posts over a month old, then, have all other comments go into moderation if the commenter hasn't successfully commented on the site before. If you need any help with any of this please feel free to get in touch, Tom Karlin,

what works really well for me is turn on Akismet, set it to delete comments on posts over a month old, then, have all other comments go into moderation if the commenter hasn’t successfully commented on the site before.

If you need any help with any of this please feel free to get in touch,

Tom

]]> By: Karlin http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100054 Karlin Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:06:05 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-100054 I had so many problems with spam on the chipswiththat.com blog for my slot on the Right Hook -- in one case, hundreds of links posted over 2 days -- that I'm very wary of allowing open blog comments that don't require registration and then moderation. As an experiment I've set techno-culture to be open, but anyone should have been able to register -- though I am indeed trying to figure out how the heck Wordpress works and might not have ticked the right options. In the finest geek tradition I went straight to running the site without bothering with the manual. LOL I had so many problems with spam on the chipswiththat.com blog for my slot on the Right Hook — in one case, hundreds of links posted over 2 days — that I’m very wary of allowing open blog comments that don’t require registration and then moderation. As an experiment I’ve set techno-culture to be open, but anyone should have been able to register — though I am indeed trying to figure out how the heck Wordpress works and might not have ticked the right options. In the finest geek tradition I went straight to running the site without bothering with the manual. LOL

]]> By: Copacetic » Blog Archive » Chris Horn is blogging http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-99998 Copacetic » Blog Archive » Chris Horn is blogging Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:37:12 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-99998 [...] Horn? The  founder an twice time CEO of Iona Technologies.  (Tip o’ the hat to Tom for the [...] [...] Horn? The  founder an twice time CEO of Iona Technologies.  (Tip o’ the hat to Tom for the [...]

]]> By: Brian Greene http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-99995 Brian Greene Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:32:57 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-99995 karlin a granny? :-) i love getting the DART on a friday, i was returning from town at 9am this morning having done a hard days work podcasting a breakfast briefing, and I happen to get the biz section of the irish times left behind by the 'southsiders' so that way I get to read karlin among a million discarded herald am/metro's. tom I have a bigger problem with the chris horn comment page. its new blogger'esque comment login page. if i too am a "new" blogger, it wants my GOOGLE account details for this login. Now if chris was nasty this page could easily be a phishing page for google/gmail accounts. this hit me in nov 2006, but its not a big issue out there <a href="http://www.briangreene.com/bhg/2006/beta-blogger-not-better-blocker/">http://www.briangreene.com/bhg/2006/beta-blogger-not-better-blocker/</a> karlin a granny? :-) i love getting the DART on a friday, i was returning from town at 9am this morning having done a hard days work podcasting a breakfast briefing, and I happen to get the biz section of the irish times left behind by the ’southsiders’ so that way I get to read karlin among a million discarded herald am/metro’s.

tom I have a bigger problem with the chris horn comment page. its new blogger’esque comment login page. if i too am a “new” blogger, it wants my GOOGLE account details for this login. Now if chris was nasty this page could easily be a phishing page for google/gmail accounts.

this hit me in nov 2006, but its not a big issue out there
http://www.briangreene.com/bhg/2006/beta-blogger-not-better-blocker/

]]> By: jacob http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-99994 jacob Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:27:05 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/new-blogs-and-their-comment-policies/#comment-99994 Ugh, I know. Nice timing - I just hit a site like this a few minutes ago. I really hope it's unintentional or at worst, a misguided anti-spam policy. Ugh, I know. Nice timing - I just hit a site like this a few minutes ago. I really hope it’s unintentional or at worst, a misguided anti-spam policy.

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