Comment Policy
by Mike on September 30, 2008
in Uncategorized
I feel its important for a blog to have a comment policy. An effective blog should be like a little community in which everyone is encouraged to add their own opinions. Unfortunately there are some bad apples that like to stir up trouble or spam blogs for their own selfish purposes. That’s why I created this simple comment policy that sets the ground rules for imiseasy.com
1. No porn, gambling, hate, or otherwise questionable links allowed.
2. You’re welcome to link to your blog or website, but no affiliate links please.
3. Don’t be greedy. You’re getting a free link in return for your comment so please don’t add even more links inside the comment itself. It just looks spammy.
4. Please use a real name. I’d like to actually get to know and interact with my regular readers and a name helps build relationships among readers more than keyword stuffing will. The other day I received a comment with “Hot Latina Asses” as the author. If I see something like that I’m going to change it to Anonymous or just delete it.
5. Keep in mind this is a family friendly blog and comments that are insulting, rude, or offensive will be edited or deleted.
6. I’m using 3 different plugins to help give back to regular readers.
Lucia’s Linklove rewards frequent posters by removing the NoFollow tag from your link after you’ve had 7 comments approved. The idea is to discourage drive-by spammers without punishing loyal readers.
CommentLuv automatically checks your url and if its a blog it will post a link to your most recent post after your comment. I’ve noticed some bugs with this one pulling the right post but overall it works great.
Top Commentators does exactly what its name implies. It lists the top commentators for the current month in the sidebar and those links are all DoFollow, so you can get a sitewide link on this blog (currently PageRank 4) just by regularly posting approved comments!
7. I reserve the right to approve, edit, or delete comments as I see fit. I also reserve the right to change this comment policy at any time.