Most of the comments posted here are thoughtful, conscious and useful, but as the site continues to grow, so does the number of spam comments. This is to be expected once your blog is getting any traffic, that’s why I moderate comments to make sure spam doesn’t get through.I want comments, of course. Some of the best advice found here has been through reader comments. Contrary to popular belief – I don’t know everything. Sure, I’ve been prepping for years and have built up a wide knowledge base, but I’m still learning new things. When we think we know it all – and that is when we fail.
By moderating comments I get to see what has been written before it gets posted. If the comment makes sense, isn’t slanderous, racist or full of vulgarity I post it – even if I don’t agree.
Moderating comments means that, sometimes, I find some losers mixed with the winners. My favorite bull crap comment this week, came from “Skeeter” he said:
“Nice site. I read it often. Good stuff found here. Visit my site [blog URL removed by by M.D.]
Thanks and good luck.”
It is obvious that this person isn’t a real reader and is only posting this in an attempt to drive traffic to his site. Out of curiosity I visited the address listed and guess what – it was a porn site. Makes me glad, that I take the extra time to moderate and remove such comments.
Since starting The Survivalist Blog several years ago, I’ve gotten every type of comment imaginable. I’ve been threatened, called names and harassed, I even had one guy tell me he was going to come to my place, kick down my door and rape me. Uuumm….yeah, I see that happening.
Anyway; that’s why I moderate the comments – to keep such crap off the blog and to make it a better experience for real readers like you…
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Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..'
I love the “sit in the corner…” photo. Ack! Hope I am not one of them… :) Anyway, it’s difficult to keep the old spiderweb-filled mind from wandering when you put some subjects up but it sure helps get the brains moving. I remember a day, over a year ago, when I saw a few people had put some ‘negative’ comments on here…glad they are gone…keeps the site nice, neat and very tidy for real viewers and that is helping give others a more pleasant experience. No one that I know, and I know a lot of people, would tolerate things like that and they would do just as you are doing. I did not like what they were doing at the time and I would again speak up if I felt it necessary. People need to have some respect for others and be able to restrain theirselves but in today’s world we can see how that has decreased. Some are out to use others for their own purpose if they can such as with their ‘unrelative’ links and I am glad you are not allowing that to happen. Anyway, don’t let anything slip past you, M.D. Your site is invaluable and is very needed. I, for one, appreciate it. You’ve got something going and it’s continued to go in the right direction. :)
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