Sunday, 23 October 2011
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The Rules of Commenting
Our dear Healthkicker readers -
There seems to be a lot of hate going around on our health-driven site lately. We read your comments and we hear your complaints, and so we're giving you a code to live by when deciding to read posts and comment.
Rule #1 - Don't be hateful. This should be self-explanatory, but apparently it's not. It's one thing to disagree with a person's thoughts and beliefs, but it's another to start cursing them out for having them. Don't do that.
Rule #2 - Choose your reads wisely. If you know that a particular writer tends to aggravate you, then don't read his or her posts. You'll only feel inclined to start a commenting war, and this could lead into doing things we're against in Rule #1.
Rule #3 - Know when to stop. We love when you all engage and interact with each other - that's what a blogging community is all about. But there's also a time to stop, too. If your point is not being accepted by whoever your back-and-forth is with, then decide when is good to end the conversation. Debates that go too far end up resulting in things we're against in Rule #1.
We want you all to be able to actively react and talk about the posts we feature for you all to read, but it's been going a little too far lately. We reserve the right to delete hateful comments and actively do so, so make sure your comments don't fall into the trap.
Let us know of any additional rules that you think people should live by when commenting in the comment section below.
Play nice, readers. And stay healthy.
- The Healthkicker Team
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Comments (40)
Certain members of Xanga's elderly community hate my sense of humor. And certain members of Xanga's religious community hate my beliefs. And certain members of Xanga in general hate my politics. So other than having to fake every one of my comments so as not to offend I think Xanga can be a very wonderful place of self discovery and social intercourse.
@RoaminCatholic@revelife - That's the thing about commenting on here...if you have a strong opinion about something, someone else is going to have an equally strong opposing opinion. After getting in some intensely heated discussions, I learned that it's best to voice my initial opinion and refuse to respond to any naysayers who come back aggressively. There's no way their opinion will be changed anyway so bickering back and forth angrily never solves anything. Say what you gotta say and then ignore all the angry ones who come after you.
Blop blop blop. I love the cat picture.
Good advice, too bad the target audience probably won't even realize you mean them.
@RoaminCatholic@revelife - Regardless if they hate everything you stand for, don't be afraid to be yourself and yes, there will be people that won't get it but the majority of the time, it's usually fine. Just don't let what they say get to you and keep commenting the way you want regardless of what they say. Be kind to them if they are aggressive to you.
@Whatsthat@momaroo - I really welcome opposing opinions. What I find so striking is the contempt and rudeness that gets heaped on me and others for simply presenting an opposing opinion. Such rudeness shuts down discussion which is tantamount to shutting down American society. The Founders set up our government so that the power resided with the people. But it separated the people from the government except at election time. During the interim between elections it is critical that people, the sovereign power of government, discuss things. If discussion is shut down, then our government gets derailed and damaged.
@Hinase@xanga - You are such a kind and thoughtful person. I will take your advice to heart.
Maybe if certain people's posts (who are only published because they bring you traffic) weren't allowed through, you wouldn't have this problem.
it makes me sad that this had to be posted.
in other news, the lol cat at the beginning makes me super glad :D
Hey Healthkicker. You probably wouldn't have this problem if you didn't post stuff from a certain someone who does all of these things.
You should also add a Rule #4: No threatening of persons on Xanga or telling them you wish to choke them. Brainlesspilot would be banned for that ;)
Hey, how about you guys post credible things instead of total bullshit?
@RoaminCatholic@revelife - Yeah, it took me a long time before I took that advice myself and I'm glad. No problem ;) I don't want you to be driven away just because you have different opinions from everyone else, I want you to express them openly ;)
@Saridactyl@xanga - Hear hear.
Simple solution - ban brainlessmoron and you will have all your problems solved, and work cut out for you.
I guess everyone who has a problem with LG as well as LG needs to re-read this " If you know that a particular writer tends to aggravate you, then don't
read his or her posts. You'll only feel inclined to start a commenting
war, and this could lead into doing things we're against in Rule #1."
I know this still falls into the "commenting" category, but when someone writes a post and responds to a comment on that post that they wrote and cusses out the commenter and calls him/her names and things that are very demeaning, there needs to be punishment for that poster, such as banning them from posting on Health Kicker for a certain amount of time. I'm not calling names and pointing fingers, but recently there was a post on here where the original poster later came back and called a woman a bitch (among other things) and I was appalled that anyone (let alone the original poster) was being allowed to post comments like that. You really need to do a better job of filtering comments.
I appreciate what you're trying to do here.
@Pink_TeaCups@xanga - Lol. Well played.
@designlessthts@xanga - It would help if we could see who wrote it before clicking on the link.
@RoaminCatholic@revelife - That's the thing you can be grateful for on here: lots and lots of discussions and opinions.
@Pink_TeaCups@xanga - "freedom of speech card" doesn't apply to websites where you agree to terms of use that prohibit a type of speech. I think this post is just a gentle reminder of the rules.
Before I realized this was a healthkicker post, I thought it was going to be a list of the types of comments we often see in Xanga love-fests. like, 1. I you don't know what do say, just say, "awwe, ((hugs))" and 2. make sure you tell at least a few Xangans each day how much you love them, with words such as "You are really amazing. You love you, x!!"
I think the lovefest stuff can be very strange,but it works a lot better than the hatefests that go on here. Nonetheless, I have to say the posts presented in this particular forum seem to be cherry-picked and written in a way to stir up controversy. perhaps the healthkicker team needs to find a better balance between what will increase readership versus what is fare game.