I blogged once before about how much I hate it when bloggers ask readers to leave a comment and then after the reader takes the time to write a comment, the comment is withheld from being posted until the blogger gets a chance to first “approve” the comment.
It smacks of micromanaging and I hate it.
Early yesterday morning I tried to leave a comment over at Lifehacker. It was concerning a post about using cat litter to de-stink dirty, smelly shoes. Personally I thought it was a stupid piece of advice. If your shoes are smelling badly, I don’t think cat liter will fix the problem. If cat liter was really so magical, why do most cat boxes smell like cat urine and/or cat fices unless you clean them on a very regular basis? Smelly shoes are a sign that your feet have produced a ripe environment for bacteria to flourish.
Cat liter wont fix that problem.
Anyway, I tried to leave a quick comment, but after submitting my comment, I was told that my comment must fist be “approved”. If I had known that beforehand, I wouldn’t have bothered leaving a comment.
And that’s the thing that bothers me the most about blogs that resort to using comment moderation. They tend to keep the fact that someone must fist approve comments before they show up, a secret. The result is that if you read through the comments, you tend to think people are reacting in a way that very well might not be the way most people are reacting.
It’s dishonest.
Lee B.
/ October 21, 2009Not sure if you are aware of perhaps the biggest, most gapingest asshole on the whole Internet, Michael Crook. Inno way to I want to draw attention to this offensive waste of the juices of life, but to your point…
Here is a monster that spews hatred to get attention, delights in US service persons and police getting violently killed, and revels in children being victimized in revolting ways. (He also got drummed out of Army basic draining because he’s a complete pussy) But look at his blog, and YOU can’t post “rude” comments.
http://www.michaelcrook.org/comment_policy/
His whole existence is rude, but the moderation of comments in his, twisted imaginary world is pretty hard to fathom. Maybe we should put cat litter in his shoes.
Lee B.
/ October 21, 2009Moderate THIS!