Friday, November 8, 2013

Comment management policy and moderation principles

This article explains the policies that Blogger-HAT applies in accepting, moderating and responding to comments.


Comments are single of the ways we can allow other frequent send a letter to on our blogs.

Blogger lets us wish whether or not to allow annotations overall, and plus on personality posts. And it provides options in support of Blogger administrators to wish whether annotations are inevitably in print, or if they duty be standard at the outset. This admiration process is called moderation.
The following sections express the policies so as to I apply in moderating Blogger-HAT and Blogger-HAT-Lite.

You are meet to service this as the basis of your own comment-management rules - but please turn into certain so as to consider both idea, to comprehend how it applies your blog, and acknowledge Blogger-Hints-and-Tips as the creative source by introduction this line in the footer of your own posted plan
Modified from the comments-moderation policies applied by Blogger-Hints-and-Tips.


Comments Policy

Blogger-Hints-and-Tips welcomes actual annotations from readers.

This blog retains the no-follow option calibrate by Blogger in on the whole default templates. This capital so as to web-addresses deposit into annotations gone at this point will not help to progress your position indexed.   But if you send a letter to attractive annotations, I will probably look by the side of your position, and might subscribe to your blog's RSS feed or share it on my Facebook summon, which will break you a little believe with on the whole search engines.

All annotations are moderated, using the moderation policies outlines under.

Blogger-HAT aims to re-evaluation and comport yourself on all annotations inside 3 days: However nearby might be delays if instant is desirable to exploration issues.

Moderation principles
  • Only English-language comments are accepted.   Others will be deleted, or marked as spam.
  • "+1", "me-too" and "thanks, that helps" comments may be published, provided the number of them does not detract from other visitors experience of the blog.
  • Comments that provide specific feedback about problems you have with the advice in an article - or about changes in Blogger etc since the article was written - are especially welcome.
  • All comments are published, or rejected, as is: I do not edit or alter your comments in any way.  (See the section below about copyright for more information about this.)
  • Comments that are spam will not be published, and Blogger's spam-filters will be alerted.
  • Comments that do not relate to the article that they are left on will not be published: they will be deleted.
  • Comments that are "signed" with a blog or website URL/address will not be published, unless there is a direct link between the URL and the content of the article and the comment you left. 
  • Comments that contain email addresses or other contact information (eg phone numbers) will not be published.  (This is for your own protection - even if you think it's not necessary, I do not want to be responsible for you being harassed.)
  • Comments that include personal names will not be published, unless the name is common enough that you are not readily identifiable.
  • Comments that do not meet Blogger's publication standards (including racism, hate-speech, violence etc) will not be published, and maybe reported as spam at Blogger-HAT's sole discretion.
  • Comments that conflict with the terms and conditions of Blogger-HATs advertisers (including AdSense and other advertisers) will not be published.
  • Application of all these principles is at Blogger-HAT's discretion.


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But annotations so as to link to posts in the Blogger-Problem-forum are meet, and I will try to assist you in the forum if you link to your query ina comment gone at this point.

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Copyright:

The content of all annotations is owned by the person who gone the comment.

By leaving a comment this blog, you are giving me the non-exclusive straight to show your comment at this point, and to recap it inside blog-posts provided the source is acknowledged.

You plus tinge so as to my blog has RSS-feeds in support of annotations enabled, so you comment might be in print elsewhere too.


Comments submitted to alternative channels:

Messages left on Blogger-HAT's Facebook page or Twitter stream or Google+ page will be responded to in those forums.

Comments sent by email via my personal Google+ Profile will generally not be responded to.


What else? 

Are there other issues that you think a comments policy should cover?   Please let me know if you think I've missed an important issue.

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