Comments on: Mind Your Blogging Manners: 10 Proper Commenting Practices

By: Michelle Salater

Michelle Salater — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:47:12 +0000

Jeannette, love your #11 suggestion! Absolutely, your comment should be free of grammatical and spelling errors. The same goes for incorrect info. Thanks for your input.

Shari, I do exactly what Suzanne Vara suggested — check out the person commenting. I usually send a thank you email after someone new comments on my blog. I’ve had bloggers send me thank you emails before and it really means a lot.

Thanks to you both for commenting.

By: Jeannette Paladino

Jeannette Paladino — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:58:22 +0000

I would like to leave a comment that I hope adds value, following your excellent advice. A #11 could be to write coherently and check your spelling. Some bloggers think it is bad form to correct a comment so if it contains misspellings or incorrect information, they won’t use it. I, myself, have corrected innocent spelling errors and used the comment, but I’ve also received comments that were so poorly written that I didn’t include them on my blog.

By: Shari Weiss

Shari Weiss — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:01:30 +0000

When I read the title of this article, two thoughts came to mind:
(1) Why reinvent the wheel? [another article on writing blog comments]
AND
(2) Cool: I love reading articles on blog commenting.

Sounds contradictory and ironic and my head went to all the reasons we communicate on the web — to share valuable content. We re-tweet and “re-write” because we may all reach additional people who haven’t seen this information before AND we have the chance to add our own spins.

Earlier today I read Suzanne Vara’s 10 Mistakes not to make blogging — where I’d had the exact same feeling.

Interestingly enough, one of her tips is an add-on to this post. She suggested that when you REPLY to a blog comment, you as the original poster should do some “work” and check out the commentor’s blog and refer to his/her blog in your reply.

Every time we read something — even on a popularly written about topic — we can still learn something more, or better.