Comment Policy

Technology Bloggers is a community blog, therefore it is vital that we have an easy and fair commenting system in place.

Name and Email
Many blogs require you to leave your name and email address. We however don’t. This is a blog for everyone, so even if you don’t have an email, or want to remain anonymous, you can still comment!

If you do enter your email address, it will not be published without your permission.

You can build a better relationship with others in the community if you use a name or nickname, but you don’t have to.

Optimise Your Comment
Our blog uses KeywordLuv and CommentLuv. To take advantage of KeywordLuv, enter YourName@YourKeywords in the name field – e.g. “Christopher@Technology Bloggers” would appear as “Christopher from Technology Bloggers”

To make use of CommentLuv, just tick the CommentLuv box and choose which post you want to show – it’s that easy!

If you don’t have a website or blog that you want to link to, just leave that box empty :-)

Add An Image (Gravatar)
You may have noticed that next to every comment there is an image. This is known as a Gravatar. You will be automatically assigned an image if you do not have a Gravatar. If you don’t have one, but would like one, please visit Gravatar.com. For more information see this article about Gravatar.

Think About Your Content!
All comments must have good grammar, as well as be written in good English. If we can’t work out what your comment says/means, what’s the point in publishing it?

All comments must also add value to the blog, therefore they must either add useful information to the article, answer someone’s question, continue a conversation, or be considered a worthy comment for some other reason. Please do not post comments which just reword a bit of the article. People will read the article, and then see the same content, just reworded in the comments – a waste of time?

Please note that auto-approved comments can be removed if deemed inappropriate or of no use to anyone. Our comment moderation team try to make sure that they read everyone’s comment, so that you can have piece of mind that your comment has been read and that no ‘spammy’ comments appear on the blog.

The final decision regarding comments rests with the admin team.

Replies To Your Comment
Some blogs give you the option to subscribe to all other comments on an article, in a hope that a reply to your comment may be amongst them. We don’t do this, but instead we use a plugin called ReplyMe.

ReplyMe sends you an email, when your comment has a reply. The email has your original comment in it, along with the reply and a link to the comment on the blog so that you can continue the conversation. This means that you don’t have to remember to subscribe to the comments and it keeps your inbox free of other comments, which you may not be interested in.

Comments Not Appearing
If your comments are not appearing straight away it could be down to a number of factors:

  • It is your first comment, so it has been called in for moderation
  • The body of the comment has a URL in it – all such comments will automatically be called in for moderation
  • Your comment may have been caught by the spam filter, this will require an authorised user to manually approve it

Comment Not Contact!
Comments are not to be used instead of the contact form. Please contact the the admin team through the contact form, not using comments.

A Quick Note About Spam
We use the plugins Akismet and GASP to reduce spam. GASP reduces automated spam and Akismet reduces user spam.

Legalities
Upon submitting your comment or trackback, you accept that it will be visible to everyone who visits the blog, and that it may be republished elsewhere on the internet.

Comments and trackbacks that are not approved may still be used for other purposes – for example to educate new comment moderators of the differences in comments/trackbacks which should and shouldn’t be approved.

For more information please read Technology Bloggers policies.

Thank you for reading our comment policy, happy commenting :-)
The Technology Bloggers Admin Team

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