By: Amanda Patterson
We
often hear advice on the way bloggers and page owners should treat their
followers, but not much has been written about how followers should behave.
Many large news sites and websites have removed their comment sections, but for those of us
who are building a following, this section can be important.
We
have a policy at Writers Write that we do not allow abusive, derogatory, or
intolerant comments on blog posts and social media posts. Don’t get me wrong.
We are happy to have constructive criticism and valid arguments in
streams.
We
are not happy for people to insult and abuse others under the guise of
‘opinion’. As Douglas Adams said, ‘All opinions are not equal. Some are a very
great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument
than others.’
This
made me think about the etiquette of commenting on posts. Here are six
things I believe people should consider before they make a comment:
1.
Be kind. Be polite. The
author of the post is a real person with feelings. Remember that you are a
visitor on the platform.
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you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they
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