Anonymous comments killing Blogs?

Blogging is a way of expressing oneself

That’s all. Do not take things seriously to heart.

There are always negative comments, sometimes very sensible, some times sheer non sense.

Apart from this, we have Anonymous comments, which I feel are being posted by people with no work to do,who can not put their points across and from people who are senseless.

Critical comments are worth hearing and replying to while anonymous comments may be considered as Spam and dealt with accordingly.

I do not think anonymous comments are killing blogs ,but rather educate Bloggers that they have stupid people around them .

In fact such comments drive me Blog more.

I am very lucky in that I receive very positive comments for the most part. But there are those times where I get extremely negative ones. I don’t mind negative comments, if they’re about the actual subject at hand in my post and present a clear point as to why they disagree with me. What I find baffling is this trend of extremely negative comments, from anonymous commenters, that have nothing to do with the post, just how much they hate me. And I am supposed to do what with this opinion?

Oftentimes they are about my looks and how ugly I am, yet the commenter leaves no picture of themselves, which in the interest of fairness, you’d think it’s only right that they’d put themselves out there in the same way, no? I had someone leave a comment on one of my YouTube videos the other day saying ‘your parents should have been sterilized before they allowed you to exist.’ OK, fine. But what is the point of that comment? I would imagine, if you find me that offensive, you wouldn’t watch more than one of my videos (as said commenter did).

Bloggers put a lot of work into what we present. It takes a lot to put yourself out there the way we do. Negative comments are fine, in fact, the world would be a scary place if everyone did agree with me. But I would argue that it’s not just bloggers who have a responsibility for what we put online – commenters do too. I look forward to the day where anonymous commenting doesn’t exist. If you want to have an opinion and enter into the discussion, put your name behind what you say. It’s much more respectable. Even better, make sure your comment presents some form of logical argument relating to the post – ‘you’re an ugly bitch’ just doesn’t cut it in the big leagues. Until then, your silly little comments won’t be taken seriously and sadly, I fear, neither will blogs themselves.

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