{"id":4207,"date":"2012-12-30T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T22:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2012-12-30T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T22:58:53","slug":"being-honest-in-your-blog-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/12\/being-honest-in-your-blog-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Honesty in your blog comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you start blogging you will start getting comments. Unfortunately, a large proportion of them will probably be spam, but the real comments are great.<\/p>\n<h3>What about the real but not-so-great comments you may get?<\/h3>\n<p>As I wrote a few years ago (back in December 2007 to be precise &#8211; <a title=\"Finding value in old content\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/05\/finding-value-in-old-content\/\">old content<\/a> that still rings true!), I think you have <a title=\"Dealing with negative comments\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/12\/dealing-with-negative-comments\/\">five choices about how to act on negative comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Judging spam comments\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/09\/judging-spam-comments\/\">Spam<\/a> and outright abuse I think should be deleted and forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Comments that just disagree with you or\u00a0\u00a0realistic or even constructive\u00a0 criticisms are a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping negative comments in your blog seems honest to me &#8211; you&#8217;re not censoring and are being transparent.<\/p>\n<p>It may be confronting to leave negative comments live, but it gives you a chance to be human and show that you are open to feedback &#8211; especially if you show that you have learnt from it.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever left negative comments in your blog? What response have you got from doing so?<\/p>\n<p>Would you use <a title=\"Negative comments and controversary\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/12\/negative-comments-and-controversary\/\">negative comments to stir a controversy<\/a> or a discussion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you start blogging you will start getting comments. Unfortunately, a large proportion of them will probably be spam, but the real comments are great. What about the real but not-so-great comments you may get? As I wrote a few years ago (back in December 2007 to be precise &#8211; old content that still rings [&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":[51,1425],"tags":[75,339,324,79],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-business-communications","tag-blog","tag-comments","tag-criticism","tag-negative"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207","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=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5348,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}