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Ronald – thanks! I also blog about what can be a rather “emotive” issue, and since I don’t censor what I say, yes I have to be vigilant there are many trolls who just love to stir it with personal attacks! And I don’t want the conversational atmosphere on Like It Is to turn into a battleground. I think blog owners have to work hard to create and maintain the kind of atmosphere they want…once you do that, I have found that most people generally get the message. I know I have many readers who never comment – but they read very regularly – I call them blurkers. Months later, they may de-lurk and then they say “I’ve been reading your blog for a long time…”

This was an interesting post by the way. Thank you!

I have noticed from comments I have read that your blog is more into debate, so I would see that you would have to have a rather strict comment policy. I myself despise commentators who personally attack the blogger. I’m of the opinion, “Either debate logically, or get lost.”

Thank you for your wonderfully insightful comment.

It is the same as in real life. If you are giving a speech about, say, driving habits, and someone starts criticizing you based on the way you wear your watch and insults you in front of everyone, that person needs to be told that getting hyper over a watch has nothing to do with the speech in question. Also, attacking someone personally when you can avoid such an attack seems very weird.

Thanks for your comment. I can see from your useful comment that you do comment with very useful information! Thanks.

If people don’t want to comment and just want to read that’s absolutely fine by me, but if they do comment they must abide by my blog etiquette or I’ll delete their comment and if necessary ban them from my blog. It’s happened, but happily only a couple of times
If someone decides they want to have a go at me because of something not related to the post, I will probably delete their comment as it’s likely to be off-topic anyway.

My commenting on other blogs…. I comment only if I feel I have something to add to the conversation.

Like you said, they are there to personally attack the blogger. Even if Shawn did something that they said, it is his blog and they cannot just barge in as a crowd and start insulting him.

Hawaii Pictures, thanks for stopping by and commenting, I really appreciate it!

That’s a good point, to comment when you can add something to a conversation. Wow, 200+ blog subscription does sound extremely hard! Regarding the Yesfollow plugin, we have the “nofollow” attribute turned off for this site. Does that help?

Again, thanks for commenting!

PS: Looking forward to some Hawaii pics.

I witnessed this very thing yesterday on Shawn Blanc‘s blog. Some commenter (or one) obviously did not agree with Shawn’s religious beliefs and trolled several posts. This is unacceptable.

I hate ad hominem attacks. It’s one thing to disagree with a blogger on a point. It’s another to attack that blogger personally.