When writing your comment policy it is important to remember that you want to encourage comments. Define the guidelines for commenting and support a community. It also helps define what is not allowed e.g. what you consider unreasonable behavior (insults etc.) or spam. Criticizing your content should be allowed to encourage discussions, but personal attacks and insult should be a no-no.

I added my comment policy after i received an insulting comment that I did not want to publish on my site. The comment policy gave me the confidence to delete that comment, without having the need to explain myself. It doesn't only tell your readers what is allowed and what isn't, it also helps you know how to deal with the comments.

For an example comment policy I am going to refer you to my site. Feel free to use any of it on your own site :)

My Comment Policy

and now onward to the guest blogging policy.



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AnaSantos Premium
Thanks for sharing!
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SarahLuna1 Premium
Always happy to help!
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genesispro Premium
Thanks Sarah for your wonderful blog on Comments and Blog Policies. If you don.t mind I may adopt your comment policies to abbreviate my thinking process in generating one. It will serve as my prototype to create my own, not to plagiarize it. Cheers and Best!
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SarahLuna1 Premium
Feel free to use as much of it as you want. It was one of the main reason why I shared this training. It took me a while to get mine together as I had to do some research. So hopefully this will save a lot of fellow WAers a lot of time :)
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JAZZmom41 Premium
I love your website! Shall return. Thank-you for sharing your Comment Policy.
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SarahLuna1 Premium
Hey Jazzmom I am glad you found it helpful!
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ShirleyWoon Premium
Thank you for the heads-up Sarah, I've seen some nastiness in my time, though thankfully never in our WA community.
God bless...
Shirley
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SarahLuna1 Premium
Hey Shirley,
thankfully my unpleasant commentor was not a WA member. But it made me realize that the more exposure my site gets, the more it can attract people who "like to argue". After doing some research and learning that interacting with them does not get rid of them, I decided to implement the policy. It has worked very well for me so far :)
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ShirleyWoon Premium
I can relate, and will definitely adopt your procedure. Thank you again dear, blessings.....
Shirley
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ClydeB Premium
Very good information Sarah. Thank you!
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SarahLuna1 Premium
Always happy to help :)
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