Thanks, Paul...You stay awesome too! How is Ontario doing for you these days? I hope to get back up there soon, my niece and I have a company together in MN...

I suspect you are a Raptor fan? Congrats to them for making the NBA finals, I was glad to see that. They have so much talent and are fun to watch (not as fun as my Vikings, but yeah, fin!)...

Anyway, cheers to you and all the best!

Dave : )

Hi, Dave.
Thank you for your response.

Congratulations to the Raptors...history is being made.

But my basketball roots go back to the days of Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, 'Pistol Pete,' Jo-Jo white, Rick Barry and the gang.

It was a different game back then. Not to say that it was not made more great by the likes of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.

For me, there is only one game...The NFL.

The CFL is entertaining but nothing compares to the precision of NFL.

By 'Vikings' do you mean Minnesota? They will do well again this year.

I am an Aaron Rogers Fan. Let's see what happens.

Stay in touch, and again sorry for any losses. That is simply the circle of life.

Kindest regards from up North.

Paul.

Hi, Kelyee!

How is it going in AZ? Yes, it has been a while for sure...I come up for air every once in a while on the site, hehe...

Thanks and it just involves a little tweaking for the comment tool - it is aggravating, but overall, that is a very useful feature for us all and I am glad we have it...

I do hope things are going well for you and have you adjusted to being an empty nester? It was quite a change for us when our girls moved on to college and life (but not a bad thing)...

Cheers!
Dave : )

LOL guess I wrote too soon... She's moving back next month. Her words were. "Mom, adulting is too hard ever since I moved out I can't seem to have any money. What would you say...if um..." And at this point, I knew what she was going to say. Lol

"I...move... back?"

It was fun while it lasted. 😂

I figure they do this about 4x haha! My girls did this also...I even bought a house in Florida so my oldest could explore the American side of her heritage...She moved back to Germany within 4 months!!! Enjoy them, at some point, it will truly be the two of you!

:)

Haha, I guess that's what I'll be looking forward to for the rest of my life. It's alright they keep you on your toes. You have a great day Dave. 😃

Hi, Otikoro!

Bring it on, I am ready to write my heart out hehe! Thanks for stopping by and appreciate your thoughts...Have a super day!

Cheers!
Dave : )

How are things going for you and the dogs? Appreciate you stopping by, M8! Enjoy the sun, where you are at is a beautiful place!

Cheers!
Dave : )

This is Bruno right now. Charlie is sleeping just below, out of shot.

Hi, Bob...

Good to meet you, first of all...Secondly I have followed you....Third, thanks for the feedback and kind words...Lastly, I wish you also a great success!

Cheers!
Dave : )

Why thank you, Laura...I really so try to add something of value and I do tend to go on a bit...

It comes from being a Sergeant Major and everyone having to listen to me when I got on a soapbox hehe!

Everyone was so glad when I finally retired! ;)

Cheers!
Dave : )

Hi Taetske...

Thanks and this got Kyle's attention so let's see if the system can be tweaked a bit, or at least maybe all people reviewing comments for approval will think through why they cannot accept a comment.

It does happen that someone can be way off base. I had one disapproved a long time ago because the subject and even the content could be interpreted a couple of ways...

My comment was not related to what the author wanted to focus on, so although it was a good comment (I thought) it was really not relevant to what he was looking for...

That one I could see the sense in disapproving. All the others, not really...Tool long, sounds unnatural, reciting what is in the post but not related, etc. Huh? :)

Greetings to you from the heat of Dubai - It hot well over 40 C here today...Summer is here...Ooof...

Cheers!
Dave : )

Hi Dave

> My comment was not related to what the author wanted
> to focus on, so although it was a good comment (I thought)
> it was really not relevant to what he was looking for...

I'm just wondering whether if an Organic Visitor who read that post, would have interpreted it the same as you, or not?

A few times I have seen clearly organic comments (they stand out like sore thumbs compared to WA comments) where the commenter clearly was referring to another blogpost and their comment was totally irrelevant to the blog on which they commented. YET, it was approved for no other reason than it being an organic comment.

Your comment couldn't have been that far off topic, that it would not at all have contributed to the LSI Keywords, and if it was, then maybe Organic Visitors could misunderstand / misinterpret the post as well - which means that the Writer didn't clarify or given enough details in the post.

Example: The other night I commented organically on somebody's post and thought a picture that was referred to, was missing. Turns out that the way it was worded was a bit confusing, but the Person was gracious and said "Oops, if that is what you thought, others may think the same, so I have reworded it to make it clear." None of us are perfect and nobody ever will be.

Anyway, just my 2c again. ;-)

Wishing you an awesome day, Dave!
Sharlee (Chocolate IceCream)

Good Morning Dave,

Some time ago I had somebody who had commented on various posts and I saw always the same structure and words were being used. I started changing some words.

I left a comment on somebody's post and saw this person had left a comment the same as on my posts. By the next time, I got a comment again from this person and it was the same thing all over again I did not accept it anymore.

The other time was very strange. I had received my first very nice comment and I replied. A new person commented and it was a copy/paste of that first comment. That one I also refused.

Let us see if they can fine tune the system, still, I think it is doing quite a good job.

Here, in the south, we had already 30C but today will be a pleasant 25C. How is humidity in Dubai? I hope dry. Normally we have 50%, not too bad.

Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske

That is some strange things you have picked up, but maybe it goes back to a 'cut and paste' mentality to get a maximum number of comments posted...

I do know that I have to take breaks if I try to do too many in a row without a pause. If you really put effort into them, it requires some effort...

The humidity and temps here in Dubai have been merciful for the most part until this week... We just went to 105F then 103 F with the humidty way up there (sticky up there)...

But, prior to this week, it has been in the balmy 90s and what made that seem nice was almost no humidity so no complaints, we have been lucky...

Now for the next 4 months, we are going to catch it! :)

TC! : )

Stay cool Dave, WA and temperature wise.

All the best, Taetske

Thanks to you as well for the kind words! : )

No problemo!

Thanks, M8! :)

Thanks, Kyle...I would hope the author of the website will see this...The logic just didn't pass muster on this...Since there is no check on disapprovals, I have seen this happen more than once...

I do know that an additional step of reviewing disapprovals of comments would be burdensome and is not a serious enough problem to warrant such a step...

Perhaps tracking of people's disapproval rates and at a certain point having a trigger to look into it might suffice. This automates the process and does not task your team.

I will PM you the name, but I can say that in general, it is chiefly the super affiliates here for some reason who are very particular about what they approve and disapprove, at least it has been for me...

Perhaps it is not even intentional, they have a high standard and high expectations (if a bit murky as to what they might be) which is a part of who they are (and why they push themselves to attain that status)...

It might just be a case of bringing it up and discussing it with them, and through osmosis, it will sink in that a bit of common sense and EQ will guide them for use of the comment tool...

I am quite sure that they do not have that same high expectation for a potential referral, they could write eight words and get approved (i.e. "I signed up with Wealthy Affiliate under you!")...

I do love that tool and for the most part, it works well. I think it adds a huge boost to SEO in that you can reply to ANY comment almost if it has anything remotely to do with the post subject.

When I reply, I generally write more than the comment just for that reason. I can add a lot of content that is relevant and it does help in the search engines results...

Anyway...See how I go on and on, haha! :)

Cheers!
Dave : )

Bravo all the way!

I have had similar experiences and I often will pass on leaving comments on some sites that I know are owned by super affiliates.

Hi Kyle

It would be awesome if Commenters have the ability to "Challenge / Appeal a Disapproval".

At this stage the system appears to be fairly one-sided, in that:

• Commenters are penalized for choosing not to comment (skipping a comment when feeling that they can't contribute to the post - which often leads to them going ahead and commenting in order to avoid the penalty, which leads to a disapproved comment in anyway - a catch 22, isn't it?)

• Commenters are penalized for disapproved comments (getting suspended).

However, Requesters are not penalized for the amount of disapprovals. At this time disapproved comments are a HUGE factor why many people don't use SiteComments, since many on here has expressed that they feel comments are rejected for superfluous reasons.

We are all in agreement that the Requesters do pay for the comments they receive, but in the same vein, the "pay" that Commenters receive is usually far less than the time they spend on reading the post and typing the comment. Many here will agree that most Commenters spend more time than what the compensation is worth.

Generally speaking, commenting is not done for the compensation, but rather in the true spirit of helping each other, and for the help received (of course). ;-)

(I'm aware that SOME may do it for the tiny compensation, but I would presume that they are in the minority, and if their comments are really of sub-standard quality, the disapproval system will take care of that.)

PROPOSAL: ;-)
1) How about allowing a Commenter to "Challenge a Disapproval" and let somebody objectively review whether the disapproval was really justified or not? (Yes, it will initially create a bit of extra work, but I would bet that it would soon stabilize as soon as everybody learns the ropes.)

2) And just like Commenters has a limit on disapproved comments before getting suspended, why can't Requesters not have a limit on disapprovals and be suspended either? Thus penalize Requesters for disapproved comments that was challenged and found to have been disapproved unjustified. That should eliminate rejections for superfluous reasons.

The idea behind SiteComments are to get "good comments", not "perfect comments", right? We all know "perfect" doesn't exist.

We can't choose the quality of Organic Comments and when visiting a website, it is often clear as daylight which comments were truly organic, and which comments came from WA, since the WA comments are SO FAR ABOVE the average organic comment, that it almost looks unnatural!

So, are we to reject "good" organic comments, just because they are not "perfect", also? Or course not!

Just my 2c worth! ;-)

Kyle, what you and Carson have created here at WA is amazing and we are extremely grateful for that - thank you! This is just a few teething problems... ;-)

Wishing you an awesome day, Kyle!
Sharlee (Chocolate IceCream)