Honestly, I disagree with a box stating what people want and I'll explain why.

I've had comments disapproved for silly reasons and have a 97% approval rating, so I'm not a bad commenter.

Comments should be HONEST opinions, or questions, etc, and not fake interest or pretending. You can comment without pretending you're interested in buying. 'Coaching' your comments by providing a box for instructions is a little too much like encouraging people what to say which isn't very ethical.

I HATE getting fake comments and you can tell when someone is just faking interest. Heck, I'd take negative comments as long as they are 'real' opinions.

You can absolutely help fellow marketers with honest comments. No one needs to lie and I refuse to be 'coached' on what to say.

The reason 'decent' comments are disapproved really is because they're trying too hard to influence readers to buy. They want 'high quality' comments that are valuable to that end. They forget that ALL comments are valuable. They don't realize that it looks very staged when there isn't low quality 'good post' comments too from organic visitors. Even negative comments are useful in Google realizing that there is something worth engaging in that post.

Nevermind most people are not going to bother to read the comment section. They might glance through it if they are interested in leaving a comment, but I can't even tell you when the last time I looked at comments on a website.

Plus you don't build trust with your audience if you delete every mediocre comment.

I wish people would stop rejecting decent comments just because they don't say what they want it to because then people focus on getting approved by faking interest and I hate that. I want REAL comments for my site. I'm not marketing through my comments. I refuse to fake comments too.

Don't take it personally. People seem to put WAY more importance on comments than needed.

Hey Carmeta - The platform has been slightly tweaked in that poor commenters will be manually reviwed and possibly banned.

However, many small changes could easily be implemented to improve it without manual intervention by WA. The platform has been a continual source of discussion for many months but
the Powers That Be decided simply to add some sort of checking system.

Your idea of a 'note box', say Twitter style, would help in many regards. I need to tell people what my site is about before they comment - trust me on this :-) - so I can't use Site Comments until it's improved.

I can't see any major change happening soon. You've just got to try to live wiuthin the system. Regarding your comment rejection, I only comment on subjects I'm familiar with and even if I see a post on a familiar topic but ti's badly written or confusing, I skip it.

Good luck.

Ian