{"id":352,"date":"2008-05-28T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T22:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T02:39:51","slug":"when-commenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/05\/when-commenting\/","title":{"rendered":"When commenting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you leave a comment in a blog, you presumably want to contribute and have your comment included on the blog site. So make sure this is going to happen by getting it right.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I have received a few comments and pings\u00a0that aren&#8217;t spam but have faulty links so I have not approved the comments.<\/p>\n<p>In one example, the same person gave two comments and had a URL starting with http:\/\/http:\/\/www so the link obviously didn&#8217;t work. The lesson here is to check whether you need\u00a0to add http:\/\/ or not when completing a form &#8211; don&#8217;t assume every blog\/website owner will take the time to fix this error.<\/p>\n<p>Another example if a link that takes a very long time to open and then goes to a page that doesn&#8217;t display well or completely. The credibility of the site, and therefore the comment, is reduced. In my case, it meant I couldn&#8217;t see how they had linked to me so I wasn&#8217;t comfortable accepting the link in my comments.<\/p>\n<p>The result? Your comment is not approved or is only approved once the link is deleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you leave a comment in a blog, you presumably want to contribute and have your comment included on the blog site. So make sure this is going to happen by getting it right. Recently, I have received a few comments and pings\u00a0that aren&#8217;t spam but have faulty links so I have not approved the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51],"tags":[341,339,115,340],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-blog-content","tag-approve","tag-comments","tag-links","tag-url"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}