Wednesday 18 August 2010

Comment Moderation.

I’ve never understood the business of comment moderation. Blogging is about publishing your thoughts; it means you’re choosing to make them public. If you have comments enabled, it means you’re inviting the public to comment on what you’ve said.

What does it indicate about a person when they exercise a right of veto on those comments, so that other readers are allowed to see only the ones of which the author approves?

3 comments:

Mother Moon said...

I so agree.... I keep my moderation on because I have missed some that were made on previous posts and was never able to reply back if I wanted to....

Still I would never reject a comment simply because it may differ from my view... as much as I feel I have the right to my opinion anyone and everyone else has the right to theirs also...

Nuutj said...

IMO, it needs to be on for some bloggers with many followers. Thier pages are likely to be spammed by unrelated reply or ads more than unpopular pages.

JJ said...

MM: Yes, I can see it has that practical value. I sometimes wonder whether there are old comments I've never replied to, because the e-mail notification doesn't always work.

Mei-shan: I can see that, but what prompted me to make the post was when a practical, non-offensive comment I made on somebody's blog was excluded, but lots of sugary, complimentary ones were allowed through. I don't mind that at all, but it did make me wonder about the mentality of the author.