Good Morning Karen,

I do not have a website which promotes WA but I do get "strange" comments now and then. As these people do not put their name I have now started to put it in the bin. In the beginning, I would ask them to present themselves but that did not help.

Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske

I like the blog option that requires you to approve all comments rather than allowing irrelevant faff to automatically publish. This allows you to make the decision to either treat a negative comment as part of a useful and open conversation, OR - if you’ve identified it as irredeemably unhelpful, just remove it. I’d just remove what you’ve shared here.

I noticed in my googling of the WA site ahead of going premium, that there was a certain highly motivated person maintaining a site with adverse opinions of WA. Of course I looked at it. But the reasoning contained therein was not relevant to my needs or concerns, so I joined WA anyway.

It’s possible these comments are being left by the same person. I’m sorry they’ve a had disappointing experience - but in the same breath... beating the drum about WA on their own site has been a successful way for them to maintain site relevance and use the drag-wind of WA’s performance to improve their own.

It’s actually one of the many adversarial business tactics I’m cataloging in my PhD!

My website is hosted on another provider whom shall remain nameless, but I can tell you that I don't get near the support with them that I get here at WA. In fact, I told my wife of my WA membership and, when she checked out what I was doing, she said that the support alone was worth 10X my membership dues. I have to agree . . . but Kyle and Carson, don't raise them. LOL

There are people who would be unhappy with a paid day off at the lake. They have no joy in their lives and seem to live to suck the joy out of others. If this poster had a valid criticism, they should have made it with provable data to back it up. Just saying something "sucks" is crude and ignorant. Delete them.

This is an excellent opportunity to respond and add additional information about the Wealthy Affiliate program.

Facts are that you will always have opinions and feedback from others that vary across the continuum from an avid fan to a hater...

You now can describe WHY WA is not a lie, how it helps newbies and experienced marketers, etc.

If it starts a discussion with that person all the better, yet again more of an opportunity to add yet more content.

There are rival platforms to WA whose members will take shots as possible at WA, and comments are one way to do that...

Facts dispel such misinformation and this is a place to use them and turn what some may think of as a negative thing into a way to get more people reading and checking for themselves...

This is just my way of handling such a comment, I see others recommend just deleting it...I would rather get some mileage out of it!

Cheers!
Dave : )

For what it's worth, I would delete the message and continue on my path. It seems your direction is working well for you and you are happy with it. Keep doing what you are doing and enjoy it.

It is our own responsibility to figure why we are not successful in any endeavor. If I fail at something, that is on me. I see no benefit in taking others down with me. If anything, it takes energy away from my next venture if I choose to do something different.

If the person (or persons) spreading negativity spent as much time and energy focusing on how to make their business better they might become successful.

It seems to me, those who feel the need to take others down with them when they fail, have bigger issues to deal with. We can feel blessed that we do not carry that burden ourselves.

Have A Great Day ! Bert

I would leave it on and ask people at wa to comment on your site how it so awesome because how that guy could come to that conclusion is beyond me other than he clearly thought when he paid his first months payment he would be wealthy without doing anything. The people you want to attract into wa who will see right through his comment

Take the High Road ....

Leave it in....

Show's that the individual who left the negative comment is travelling the Low Road...post this link...or give your explanation of your choices to be at WA!

Lots of attacks against WA out there these days it seems!

That's OK by us!

Kyle & Carson & Jay & each other have our backs!

To quote Taylor Swift: Haters gonna hate!

We are not haters here at WA!

We're too good looking and funny and smart for that! Lol!

Barb

I got essentially the same comment on my website. I left it and expressed that I was sorry they have not had any success in their field and I would offer to ensure they had what they needed to succeed her as long as they were willing to work at it.

Familiar with trolls and bots? This is one of the two. If it happens to be the second one, replying won't garner a reply. If it's the first, that's exactly what they want you to do.

How trolls operate is, basically, they say something to rattle you and expect you to respond. If you don't respond, they get bored and move on to something (Someone) else. Of course, they don't wait. They aren't 'target-specific.'

Don't ask me what I'd do, because I already know: I'd respond. I -am- troll-bait, but it's because I like trolls. They help me keep my mind sharp and I know how to use them as chew-toys. They kill a good 3-4 hours when they're really good at what they do, and 5 minutes when they're unskilled wannabe trolls. Those are the ones I usually feel cheated by.

Every troll I enter combat with these days talks themselves to death. What I mean by that is usually they become vocal enough and/or high-enough-traffic that they get noticed by moderators and banned. Not here, necessarily, but on social media sites, chatrooms, forums, etc -- places where active moderators exist and tend to notice 'eventually.'

So, my advice in this specific case: Mark it as spam. This, based on my experiences elsewhere (Who knows if it works this way here), does two things: One, it sends it to the moderation team or whoever spam goes to. Two: It removes it from your post.

Again, I don't know if either of these activities are true on this site (I haven't made a blog, therefore haven't had comments worth marking as spam, and I highly doubt I'd be informed that my spam has been handled by a moderator even if that were the case ... and I couldn't prove it even if I was told). But worst-case, it doesn't do anything and just sits there... which is what it's doing right now. If it operates like 'delete' and removes it from your post, at least it's out of your hair.

But, I don't recommend just deleting a comment like that, because a deleted comment is completely 'gone' in theory. They may not have a place to figure out whether that comment was deleted for a reason or by request or if it was just specifically your decision to delete the comment for your own reasons ... in other words, they don't have a way to research -why- it was deleted. Maybe.

I don't know what tools they have, or what they do in any case in the background, but with the options there in the screenshot, you now have my suggestions. :)