Most blogs allow visitors to the blog to post comments on any of the blog posts. These comments may pertain to the blog posting or may be completely unrelated. The comments may also be positive or negative in nature.

1. How to Blog: Dealing with
Comments

2. Blogging

Most blogs allow visitors to the blog to
post comments on any of the blog posts

These comments may pertain to the blog
posting or may be completely unrelated.

The comments may also be positive or
negative in nature.
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3. Dealing with Comments

Answer comments

Block individual
visitors from
leaving comments
in the future
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4. Dealing with Comments

Use administrative
features to delete
comments

Set the blog to
require approval of
the comments
before they are
posted on the blog
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5. Answering Comments on Your Blog
Blogger has to deal with positive,
negative comments and even questions
 Negative comments

◦ Blogger may opt to answer these comments
directly with a rebuttal to the negative
comments

Positive comments
◦ Blogger may thank the visitors for the praise
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6. Answering Comments on Your Blog

Questions
◦ Bloggers may opt to
answer these
questions to
develop a better
relationship with
the blog visitors.
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7. Blocking Comments from
Individual Visitors

In most cases bloggers will have the
ability to blog a particular user from
leaving comments on the blog

The blogger may also wish to ban
individual blog visitor if he continues to
post negative comments
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8. Blocking Comments from
Individual Visitors

A blogger may also
wish to ban an
individual blog
visitor from
making comments
if he believes the
comments are
being left as spam.
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9. Using Administrative Features

Blog owners typically have the ability to
delete a comment left by a blog visitor

This method is not 100% effective because
other blog visitors may have the
opportunity to read these comments before
they are deleted
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10. Blocking Comments from
Individual Visitors

However, there is a
way for bloggers to
make sure visitors
do not read
negative comments
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11. Using Administrative Features

Most types of blogging software have
options which require the blogger to
approve all comments before they become
available to the public

This gives the blogger the ability to delete
a comment before it is read by any of the
blog visitors.
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