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Don't Allow Comments on Your Blog Without Approval - Enjoy Talking to Yourself

The title of this article is a direct quote from another blog, where someone warns that they will not leave comments on your blog if you do not allow "instant comments without approval" and the person who wrote this blog post quote is a higher level professor. Now then, there is a real problem with this short-sided view of things. Let me explain:

First, and without trying to pull-rank, because I do not believe that is what blogging is about, I have been blogging since 1997 and have nearly 10,000 posts now total, when I started it was not even called blogging, I simply used it as a business communication tool to franchisees, vendors and customers in our organization, and allowed open access to the world. Over this time, I have fielded some of the most bizarre, mean-spirited, nasty, disgusting and sploggy (a Splog is comment spam) that you have ever seen in your life.

Now I realize that most social networks are a somewhat closed community and you have to be a member to post on such sites. Nevertheless, if you allow open comments then someone can easily post garbage comments and ruin your blog. On my most recent blog, I am not going to allow comments without approval, like most of the people due to experience and observations that I have personally had over the last 10-years or so - neither should you!

If someone threatens not to leave a comment unless allow unrestricted comments, then obviously they do not care about you much or they would not make that a stipulation of "online friendship" and you might want to consider that. Why would you want a "blog friend" with an attitude or pre-required stipulations?

Unless maybe you just want to add lots of friends to your list, personally someone adding themselves as a friend whom you do not know very well, without a little history is silly and childish, it does not prove anything. Other than you both believe in similar politics, god issues or preferences and are so needing of approval from others to boost your little online self-esteem.

Personally, I'd rather no comments than insincere, non-applicable, spiteful or attacking comments. If automatic approval is a condition or stipulation for you commenting, then don't bother, you too quickly assume that the World revolves around you and everyone so very much cares what you think or needs a friend so desperately like you do in that case. So, this blogger requires his comments to be approved and if that is an issue with you, be that way, be a child, act like a persnickety blogger, you wouldn't be the first or the last.

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