Comments on: 31 Day Comment Challenge: Becoming a Better Blog Citizen http://curiouschild.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/31-day-comment-challenge-becoming-a-better-blog-citizen-11/ Random musings on my life as Queen of the Histolibrarianivists. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:05:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: dani http://curiouschild.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/31-day-comment-challenge-becoming-a-better-blog-citizen-11/#comment-155 dani Thu, 15 May 2008 23:22:24 +0000 http://curiouschild.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-155 @ Sue I didn't consider the delay in commenting and how it affects responses. You're right that can definitely influence what you say and how you say it. @ Sue I didn’t consider the delay in commenting and how it affects responses. You’re right that can definitely influence what you say and how you say it.

]]> By: Sue Waters http://curiouschild.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/31-day-comment-challenge-becoming-a-better-blog-citizen-11/#comment-146 Sue Waters Thu, 15 May 2008 01:19:01 +0000 http://curiouschild.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-146 "Do people really care if their comments are posted immediately?" Yes for some commenters it is an issue because for some blog platforms it isn't obviously that the comment has been moderated and for a new commenter they may not understand what does comment moderation mean. Is this a result of our “gotta have it now” culture?" Definitely not a case of this really gets back to my response above. Another example is I got caught out last week as several people had commented on the same post I comment on. None of us knew what the others had wrote -- if I had known their responses I would have written my differently. It then meant that I had to go back and re-comment on the post to explain I hadn't known about the comments prior. Saying all that there are pros and cons about why you do or don't moderate comments. “Do people really care if their comments are posted immediately?” Yes for some commenters it is an issue because for some blog platforms it isn’t obviously that the comment has been moderated and for a new commenter they may not understand what does comment moderation mean.

Is this a result of our “gotta have it now” culture?” Definitely not a case of this really gets back to my response above. Another example is I got caught out last week as several people had commented on the same post I comment on. None of us knew what the others had wrote — if I had known their responses I would have written my differently. It then meant that I had to go back and re-comment on the post to explain I hadn’t known about the comments prior.

Saying all that there are pros and cons about why you do or don’t moderate comments.

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