Nov
6
I’ve followed suit, I’m afraid, and posted a comments policy. After a battle with a raging transphobe over the past couple of days, I think it’s easier if I just tell people that I won’t let all comments through. This is a space of mine which I am sharing but if they want to post their hatred, they can do so on their own blogs; this blog is mine and if I don’t want to give space to their hatred, I won’t.
If you’re interested, you can read it on my About page.
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Quite right too Emily. I wouldn’t allow any such postings on my blog either. This is not a platform on which to insult anyone or to voice one’s dislike of a person. It is most certainly not a place for bigots and such people will get no space on my blog. If any nasty material slips through unnoticed it will soon be deleted and the writer blocked.
Shirley Anne
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Comment moderation is the way to go. If it’s set to allow those who’ve already commented to post unmoderated, while sending new commenters to moderation, you’re filtering spam too.
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Yes, moderation is a must. Considering the fact that I let some of the trolls through to argue with when I feel like it, I haven’t enable the option to allow those already approved to post unmoderated, but I don’t get a huge amount of comments, so I can still manage that. As for spam, having installed Bad Behavior, I have so little of it that I don’t worry about it any more! I’d recommend that plug-in to anyone who used WordPress!!!!