How to Create a Blog Comments Policy (And Display It on Site)
Blog comments are an important way of interacting with readers, collecting feedback, and getting ideas for new topics. However, your comment section can also be overrun by spam and turn into a toxic cesspool of people fighting (you know, like Twitter). In order to avoid that, it makes a lot of sense to set up a blog comments policy. Creating some rules around comments left on your blog is a great way to set some boundaries and expectations toward your audience. It helps raise the quality of comments you receive and, as such, the quality of your site as a whole. To help you facilitate that, in this post, we will go over how to create, announce, and enforce an effective blog comments policy. We talk about why you should have one, what rules to include, and how to let readers know about it. Why Set Up a Policy for Your Blog Comments? Image source: Nick Fewings/Unsplash We already alluded to why a blog comments policy is a good idea in the introduction. It sets up a set of expectations as to how people in your comments section should behave – if they want to see their comment on your…
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