Thank You For Your Comments !?!
I was pretty behind on my RSS reading so when I woke up at 7:30am today (yes, on a Saturday), I opened my Google Reader and found over 700 new articles. Slowly I made it through them and actually found some really great articles I was inspired to comment on. I wrote out these very nice comments and then got this staggering message:
Thank you for your comment. It will appear after the moderator approves it.
Thank you for my comment!?! I just spent 10 minutes out of my busy day to write a thoughtful and intelligent comment on your blog and contribute to your community and you won’t even post my comment!
Well, I’m an internet marketer and I know how this goes. Companies are afraid that people will leave negative comments about them. Personally, I say get over yourself. If your company isn’t strong enough to take the criticism or maintain transparency then you shouldn’t be blogging. That’s what blogging is about - stimulating conversations with your community. It’s not much of a community if the conversation is only one-sided.
