Why Should You Have A Comment Policies?

Many times you may had to handle with comment spam.  Today comment spam were very deceiving and using a very high sophisticated techniques to get into your blog.  While you can control these comment spam using some plugin, there also some comment will get pass the system and most of time this type of comment were done manually by a human being.

Exactly what is comment policies?

Comment policies outline what your reader can and can’t do at your blog.  A very strong and clear comment policies will be able to educate to reader some manner when writing their comment at your blog. A comment policies actually define what your right as the blog owner.

So when does comment policies become useful?

Comment Policies serves several purpose:

• To educate reader to your blog on what can and can’t when commenting your blog.  A strong and clear comment policies can help to achieve this.
• As a mediator document, in the event problem arise from comments given by a reader, you can always point to this documents.
• As automated tool to reduce your work from moderating all comment receive to your blog. If you set you blogging software for admin to moderate all comments, then you may not need comment policies.

I see, how do I write a comment policies?

An example of a full pleade comment policies can be found at Pure Blogging.  The have a very comprehensive comment policy.  In case you need to write one, The Blog Herald, had made some outlines on how to design you own comment policies.  From the article, the few ruiles that need to be inside your comment policies.  I like to highlight some of the example comment ground rules to consider when writing your blog’s Comments Policy:

• Comment Form Guidelines: All information must entered into comment form must be real and verifiable.
• Email Privacy: Email addresses are required but not for the purpose of lead collection.  All information will not be share and treated with highly strict confidential.  This need to mentioned clearly.
• Language and Manners: A comment can be consider a two way conversation. Therefore mind your language. In appropriate comment that does not add value to the conversation will be consider spam and will be deleted.
• How The Blogger Will Respond:  Sometimes I respond to comments directly via email.  This may not the best way to respond to comments (which I will stop from now on).  You will only respond direct on the blog.
• No Personal Attack Comments Permitted: You may question or argue the content, but not attack the blogger, nor any other commenters. As the blog owner you can decide to ban this commenters from your blog.
• All Rights Reserved: The blog owner, administrator, contributor, editor, and/or author reserve the right to edit, delete, move, or mark as spam any and all comments as well as the right to block access to any one or group from commenting or from the entire blog.  When this happen, the blog owner will be hole harmless from the commenters action.
• Trackbacks will be treated as a comments.

So have you done your comment policy or currently thinking one, what were they? Was there any possible ground rules not covered in this post?

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