I Have Issues With Site Comments

I've decided to take part in the whole comment offering thing to contribute to the community and to get this adventure in learning to market pay for itself, not as a way to earn income, just self fund. So I read content instead of write content.

As I approach the site comments concept, I'm thinking that people need posts on their web pages and I have no idea what they are going to have me read about, but I am going to take the time to read the content that they pointed me to and formulate a decent comment for that web page.

So as fate would have it, I come across a request to comment on a page about breast pumps.

Honestly, no comment that a man is going to leave on an article about breast pumps will be valued. I would have expected my comment to be rejected so I passed on writing a comment there.

Here's the catch! This counts against me! My passing on an article about breast pumps caused me to have a skip rate!

The next thing that happened is I wrote a comment in reply to an article about found footage films. It was a review of such a film. I mentioned in my comment that I didn't know "Found Footage" was a genre. For all the rest of my comment there was no regard. The administrator rejected my comment because I would never have found their website on my own.

Alright...how about this?

Leave your website out there where people can only find it on their own if you only want organic commentary!

You ASKED me to come to your site by way of requesting comments!

Don't forget you have the ability to edit the comment before you approve it. You could easily have taken that line about genres out.

But that's not the final straw that caused me to rant right now.

I posted a comment on a site about shoes. Specifically, Converse Chuck Taylor shoes. I mentioned in my comment that I had low top converse shoes, not the Chucks that the article was about. So, in the article, the writer described "Chucks" as being high tops with the star on the ankle. I did not know that the converse low tops were ALSO called Chuck Taylors.

If you happen to be the author of this page, my comment afforded you a teaching opportunity to teach me and others that just because your site only described Chucks as high tops, that the oxfords are also Chucks.

My comment was rejected because I didn't know this.

I had also included a short story about letting my friends write on my soles and getting to start new when I washed my shoes, so I DID write about my experiences with the shoes (The picture up there is a screen shot of the actual rejection letter).

I don't have that many comments out there, so I'm starting to recognize these ridiculous reasons for rejection as an affront against my plan to self fund.

I'm sorry to the WA community, but if things like this are going to discourage me from being active in the community, I will probably just sit this feature out. It was fun and educational but there are some real snobs out there who don't know how to use editing to remove a line that they feel isn't in line with their page. I'm not talking about changing what I wrote, I'm talking about one or two short sentences that amount to small talk.

Remember folks, that as you're requesting site comments, you're doing so because you want activity on your posts.

Also keep in mind that a reader from WA may not know what they're getting into by clicking to read and comment on your post.

We're scratching each other's backs here, people!