My suggestion is to just delete all negative comments that has been posted on your blog and ban those Internet Protocol addresses which are used to do negative blog commenting. Highlight them as cheats.

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yeah! Spam and rubbish comments always irritate me,its very difficult to get rid of them.
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We cannot do anything to such people who think that by writing negative comments they will drive huge attention. A blogger should avoid these negative thinkers and just concentrate on writing.

Just the other day, I had this very issue crop up on my blog. I had been accosted on my way home by a religious nut and realized that he or she is a fool. I do not announce my lack of belief to everyone, but those who know me well know I am an Atheist.

I blogged about this person trying to force their beliefs on me. I had a religious person comment and I told them (nicely) that I did not want to be changed.

Later, another commenter joked about aliens. This gave my religious friend a chance to come backwith “why am I an Atheist” and “Jesus Christ is the son of God” i told her then in a not as nice tone that my blog is MY HOUSE. I make the rules in my house, and no, you may not drag others into your point who do not believe as you do.

I am now going to draft up some kind of policy to prevent this in the future. What a shame it has to come to this.

Hi Ingrid

It has been a while since I have been
visiting your blog, sorry I have been busy

I haven’t had many unpleasant
comments on my blog, but writing about Tech stuff some people of cause sometime
strongly disagree with me and that is okay. Sometimes I answer politely and
sometimes it is just too stupid and I just let me visitors judge themselves.

I’ve had 2 instances of troll-like behavior, one on my blog and the other at another blog.

The first ones were some of the first comments ever on my blog and he flat out attacked my grammar.  It was odd, like he was the General of grammar or something.  I fixed the issues and never replied to him.  I did let his comments ride because I like to let people know I am human and he was stupid for pointing out things that don’t exist (cuz I fixed them, ha ha!)

The second was the same exact thing but the nimrod made MY post a negative example on HER blog.  It was something about using “it’s vs its”in the wrong context.  Her post pinged back to me.  I wanted to go off on her on her own blog.  But I simply commented politely, thanking her for catching my mistake.  She never posted my comment.  I fixed my mistakes so her post is null and void now. HA HA!  If you are going to reference someone’s post, let them know.

So that’s it.  Just dumb-asses mostly.  No mean trolls yet.  But I would just follow your advise if I get any.

~Allie

Comment trolls are lame. And they smell funny. Well, in fact, I’ve found that people, in general, smell funny. Which is often a product of the food we eat. Lord knows I’ve eaten my fair share of garlic to offend quite a few passersby. It’s also a laundry detergent thing. I’ve got no particular preference… mostly whatever’s on sale, but have you ever been to someone’s home who consistently uses that one ‘spring mountain fresh’ scent that is right above Putrid on the scale of offensive odors? It permeates everything, and it absolutely makes spending anytime in said abode quite unpleasant. 

But I digress, I say all of this because I have little to add to this conversation because most of my comments are the work of 10-15 loyal readers. I have yet to experience the displeasure of a vile, wielder of contemptuous retorts on my blog. 

However, expanding the scope beyond the Blorld (Blog+World= Blorld… maybe that’ll catch on), into RL (yes this is RL, too!) I’ve been the recipient of a fair share of criticism, both the constructive and unfounded, baseless kinds. Constructive criticism, albeit tough to swallow, is often genuine and beneficial, and I accept it (often kicking and punching and screaming) eventually. But the unfounded kind? You know that Cee Lo Green song that ends each refrain with the same 2 lyrics? — the same 2 words often utilized by many Americans especially New Yorkers? (sorry to stereotype) — that’s how I react. 

Of course, on my blog, when that time comes, I’ll probably be slightly more subtle in voicing my displeasure. 

Ciao. 

It’s a pleasure to see you back Griddy, I thought you might have got killed by Jean Reno 😉

I haven’t had any abusive commenters on my blog. Not yet anyway. But I’ve had comments which have challenged my posts. One memorable one is the post I wrote for ProBlogger, which was generally well-received, but a small handful of bloggers objected to what I said.

Now, what I said then is different from what I’d do now. I basically half-apologised at the time, and covered my tracks. I didn’t want to cause an argument. But today? I’d reply with something like this:

“As you wish. I have no regrets with this post :-)”

And leave it at that, unless I had something specific to say in reply to that comment (which is rare). I don’t think there’s any need to generate controversy or debate to satisfy my own ego, so why stoke the fire?

But this rule excludes comments from sex driven peasants or dickwads – those are ignored and go straight to the trash!……….I told you I barely knew you when I sent those pictures………I wasn’t sure what this twitter and blogging was all about; I thought it might be a free dating site or something………..just sayin’…………
Hola ma’am; been missin’ ya, hope all is well. So good to see you. 

I will try to keep my cussing to a minimum so I don’t get booted off your site.

I don’t think I have a big enough presence or have written anything worthy of negative comments. I might have put some people to sleep but they would probably just stay away rather than waste their time with any snarky comments.

@ginidietrich:disqus made a good point however: ‘The thing about negative comments or criticism is that they are the only way you grow’. I hope to get to the point I am writing thought provoking posts that creates some passion and lively dialogue. 

Common courtesy still should prevail however; you can disagree but at least be cordial about it. For the people who make it personal, I don’t like so much.

I don’t have a ‘comments’ policy, I’m still surprised people show up and I don’t want to scare them off.

My only story is @TheJackB:disqus HowieSPM has had to step in a couple of times and tell me to quit my damn……er, uh darn bitching…………er, uh complaining. Man, how am I going to get around this cussing policy……….

Hope your week goes well.

Hi Griddy,
I remember when we first talked about starting a blog my coach said, “You’ll have to leave any negative comments there – all of them.” I haven’t had any yet. Sure, sometimes people disagree with me (yay!) but so far so good.  Or maybe I have missed them! It may be that way because I don’t do a lot of controversial topics. If I did it might be different.

I like what Jack said about leaving the comment alone, not that I’m sure I could do that. My mother used to say the best response to something foolish is silence. In the silence they hear their words echo back to them! I don’t know if that would work on a blog comment!
Nice to see you out here again Griddy!
Lori

Hi Nitty nice to read you again! I think when you go online you have no chance to avoid negative opinion as well. What we can do? If the commenter give you a good point that I will just accept this and would thank for learning me something. If the negative comment is not correct, I would probably not publish it as it brings no real value to the conversation.

Also it depends on how the criticism is served.

I remember Danny’s post as well as a few others; your comment policy is similar to my own; yes I have one and written about this before. One thing I’ve noticed – the naysayers don’t always come back for seconds do they? Like you I’ll follow up their ‘this is totally wrong, you suck’ comment with a TY as well as a call for examples: please tell why you don’t like this, explain how in your experience this is wrong. Once in a while we’ll get a nice discussion going but often these types of comments are of the ‘hit and run’ variety from what I’ve seen.

I like discussion and debate, when it helps move the conversation forward. When you’re just going in circles, no one ‘wins’ and it becomes pointless. Gotta learn when to let it go. My other thing is professionalism, which includes courtesy and respect. Tone is a thing, pointed barbs and zingers .. my policy is just to discuss or critique the post or comment, not the person making it; keep it professional, don’t turn it into personal attacks. I also try to use humor to diffuse any heated situations, but so far have been fairly lucky to not be called out too often for letting a few curse words slip or just posting something bone-headed and idiotic. Sure my day will come. 😉 FWIW.