Update On My Comment Policy
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Recently I’ve received comments to this blog that have mentioned or alleged that the people I have interviewed in podcasts or whose products I recommend have been involved in malicious or inappropriate behaviour. In two instances now I have deleted such comments.
Because of this I am posting this notice to update my policy regarding comments made to my blogs. Note this policy is purely of my own making and if you don’t like it, too bad!
If a person leaves a comment that infers, alleges or directly accuses a person of doing something wrong, illegal, or inappropriate and such comment provide no evidence to back up the accusations, at my discretion I will delete the comment. It will depend on the severity of the accusation and the person(s) accused but if I think you have made an unfair statement without backing it up with concrete evidence it will be deleted.
This applies especially if you do not have the courage to leave a real name and email with your comment.
Some will not like this policy but since I control this publication, I make the rules. If you don’t like them, don’t leave comments and don’t read my blogs.
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Jeez, you deleted that one quickly, but I’ve made my thoughts clear, bet you can’t delete this post, although I’m sure this comment will last all of about 1 minute
http://duncanriley.com/2006/06/26/so-long-yaro-starak-and-thanks-for-all-the-spam/
Having a bad day Duncan?
First up – just want to make note that it wasn’t just duncan’s comment that was deleted so this wasn’t a spiteful post against Duncan, there was another comment made as well on a different post that had allegations without proof so I wanted to make a blog policy public as a result.
I’ll repost the comment I made on Duncan’s blog article for all to see -
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Hi Duncan,
I can see based on the comments and everything that I’ve probably lost any chance of repairing our relationship, which is a shame.
For what it’s worth I would like to apologise for not emailing you immediately after deleting your comment on my blog. I should have given you that courtesy.
Besides that I don’t really appreciate the public bashing but I’m sure you feel it justified since I deleted your comment and it’s the way you like to express yourself.
Lesson learnt for me.
Regarding the post I made about the AdSense ebook which referenced the templates – I don’t intend to take it down because I don’t have a problem with website templates. I can see where you are coming from and I’m comfortable enough to agree to disagree in this instance, although you probably aren’t.
Why I deleted your comment from my blog was that you posted comments about the integrity of Joel Comm. My post was intended to recommend a free ebook which I had I read and wanted to recommend to my readers, which to get they had to sign up to a prelaunch email list for the template product which is to be released in July. I didn’t want a comment that alleged something about Joel without providing some evidence (a single link would have been enough) to back it up.
Where I went wrong was to delete the comments without waiting long enough for you to comment again with evidence (there was about a day or two) or emailing you to ask for further explanation. Which as I stated at the start of this post, I am sorry about.
I don’t know what else I can say so I’ll leave it at that.
Yaro
Staro,
I am a follower of your blog and a fan of your work, and to be honest I’m not entirely up to scratch on what the “comment abuse” on your blog is all about, but I worry about this:
“Some will not like this policy but since I control this publication, I make the rules. If you don’t like them, don’t leave comments and don’t read my blogs.”
Which is odd because your “Number 5 rule of blogging” is
5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
I would fear that your recent outburst smacks of “toys out of the pram” (at least from this innocent bystander’s view) and will serve to damage your credibility. I would consider toning down your policy, hushing down your policy or biting the bullet and letting an interesting comment debate begin. If something is SERIOUSLY out of kilter in a comment (or is spam), then quietly dispose of it and refer them to your Ts and Cs.
Just my 2Pence worth
Hi Matt – Thanks for your input.
Regardless – my point 5 doesn’t change – I still think comments help with traffic (no doubt the issues around me deleting comments will end up increasing my traffic because of the “storm” created as a result).
I appreciate your two cents and I encourage, through the wonders of commenting, any other people to have their say as well.
Yaro,
Personally just looks like you are getting to big for your brithces.
I think my britches are getting too big for me. You know when you are specifically the target of someone’s public wrath you are getting famous, it’s sort of a compliment in a twisted kind of way.
I’d be more worried if people stopped paying attention at all.
To answer your previous question in a post here on what I “called you out” on, I was simply making the point that not too long ago you were complaining about too many AdSense sites on the web… Now you’re promoting “Easy AdSense” sites with one of Joel Comm’s eBooks…
…That sounds a little contradictory to me.
To erase comments because you don’t like the tone of them, to me that’s internet censorship. Duncan, myself and others had brought up legitimate facts about the nature of Joel Comm’s eBooks are not a direct insult to Mr. Comm himself; just the nature of what he is promoting. But obviously it’s your blog and you call the shots.
Derrick – I owe you an apology too for deleting your comments without telling you. I should have given you the explanation and I’ve certainly learnt that lesson. I’m sorry.
As for my stance regarding the original free ebook article, you can see I’ve added content to clarify my intent regarding the article.
Geez I missed the soapbox party, how disappointing…
Yaro, I just wanted to say that I support the action you took. Perhaps you should have provided better notice, but its great that you have the guys to publicly acknowledge your mistake.
Making reckless comments about someone’s business practices is not ‘internet censorship’. In the democratic world it’s called libel. Libel is a very serious business in Australia, and if youre posting on an Aussie blog, you better be aware of it. Under our law, it won’t be Yaro that ends up in court if the owner objects. If you guys are going to pretend to be ‘grownups’, start acting like it.
It seems that Duncan has changed his tune about the product in question on his own blog. Bit late now that all that mud’s been thrown though..
Also seems that he’s hardly a white knight in this arena if these comments are accurate… (I personally don’t care enough to check, but feel free if you do)
http://www.afreedomainhost.com/adsense-duplicate-content-joel-comm
Cheers
Hugh
Though I haven’t been blogging much successfully.. but to be honest, what I learned from blogging is Content is King, Custom Looking Template is sure the Queen ! Your Unique Looks (Template & Logo) makes your blog seperate, different and memorable plus brandable. Then it comes to your content, depending how well and good you provide content. Visitors stay or leave !