Is this a LEGIT reason to dissaprove a comment?
Published on February 8, 2018
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Hi,
So WA has this great amazing feature of asking for comments. I love it. I think it's one of the best things here.
When we want to gain credit we are commenting on other articles that are suggested to us. Naturally, not all the articles are within our interests, or sometimes they are within our interests, but the writing is not very good, and the article itself is not very interesting.
Since I still do want to gain the credits, I gather all the patiance I have to read even stuff I don't really like, and I gather all the creativity I have to come up with a nice constructive comment.
And then I get this:
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"Disapproval Reason: Hi, thanks for the comment. However, your comment is too general and it feels like no part of the article interested you. It is true that I did write the advantages and disadvantages, but I would have appreciated if you can point out which advantage or disadvantage stood up to you as a mother. For example something like, "cloth diapers are tempting to me because they stop blowouts better". Because your comment lacked that, it felt a little "forced" and not genuine enough. Sorry about that. I have to disapprove it."
SERIOUSLY??? I was not specific ENOUGH???
Is this even a LEGIT reason to dissaprove a comment?
The truth is that this article was about diapers, and I am a mother of two kids who still use diapers, so it is within my interest. But the article was just bad! If I would write an honest comment, I would write that this article was a complete waist of my time. Instead, I really really really tried to write something nice, constructive and encouraging. I invested my time and efforts to write this comment.
When this comment was dissaproved my rank in WA dropped from 5381 to 24827! Not that I think it really affects anything, LOL :D, but it just gives a really bad feeling!!! :(
Next time, if you don't like someones comment, remember that it's also an option to approve it, and then just go and delete it. This is what I do with comments I don't like. If a person invested his time in commenting on my post - I appreciate it, I'm thankful, and I approve the comment, even if it's not exactly what I was expecting. Then, if I didn't really like it, I just delete it.
It's unnecessary to mention, of course, that I will never ever comment on this site again.
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