Comment Booboo: Edit Yourself!

Posted by scoop on November 29th, 2009 in Tips |

Have you ever regretted posting a comment on anyone’s blog and really really wanted to delete it?

Having made a mistake of clicking on the SUBMIT COMMENT button just a few minutes ago and then realizing I have more to say (no problem I just left another comment), I remembered an incident a couple of year back. A tragedy happened to a friend’s family when their baby died. They announced it on their blog a few days later to tell people the funeral service schedule and to assure everyone they were coping fine despite the grief. Comments started pouring in and while I was scanning through them a comment that was so completely out of place caught my eye. This guy (a close friend of the dad) left a comment that was not only really cheeky but was also calling the blogger out for backing out of their supposed night out. Everyone was appalled but none more than the commenter. Apparently he was multi-tasking and ended up switching comments on the two blogs he was reading simultaneously. He ended up scampering around for a way to delete his comment but since the blog was hosted by Wordpress there was no way to do so. In the end he left another comment apologizing for his mistake and asking the blogger to delete his comment as soon as he had time for inane stuff like that. The blogger did moderate his comments weeks later (understandably he went on a hiatus to mourn his loss) and deleted the comments to his friend’s relief, but not until everyone read the booboo.

My point in this long story is simple. When commenting on blogs make sure you double check not only the contents of your comment (from wording to spelling) but also make sure that you are leaving your comment on the right blog.

Most of the time our comment mistakes will not be as embarrassing as the one above but remember leaving an unprofessional comment will reflect on you as a blogger.