A Nasty Lesson About Blogging
If you have a blog as part of your small business you will understand how comments work. Most blog scripts allow you to prevent all comments from appearing until the blog owner has a chance to vet them to weed out the incredible about of spam that tries to get in via the comments.
Of course there are trusted posters who have shown the blog owner that their comments aren’t spam and their comments go straight in.
However, I saw a blog owner learn a nasty lesson this weekend. On Friday he made a post that had a relevant photo of his wife included in the post. Late on Friday night a trusted poster posted a very nasty and very vindictive comment about the blog owners wife.
Unfortunately the blog owner didn’t see it because he’s a guy who likes to get away from his computer on weekends. He finally removed the comment late on Saturday after a friend emailed him about it.
So there are two important lessons for you if you’re a blog owner:
- 1. You might have trusted posters but some are not as trustworthy as you might hope and
2. Running a blog really is a seven day a week occupation
