Blog comments

Those of you that keep a blog, do you get rude comments? The whole point of a

blog is to have your own means of communication, show your work, etc. It's YOUR

blog, you can do whatever you want. Every now and again, I'll have someone

email me in response to a post and say something very rude. For instance, the

father of a previous client just emailed me and told me he enjoyed the shoot,

and enjoys reading my blog. Then he went on to say that I need to stop using

the word "guys" when referring to a generic group of people. Apparently, it's

really "irksome" to him. I just thought that was unbelievable. Just wondering

if anyone had any similar experiences. Obviously I'm going to ignore his

comment and my life will go on, but I'm very surprised he had the nerve to do that!

As you said, it's your blog, you can just delete his comment or disable comments completely and avoid the risk of negative comments.

 

I always use the pronoun "they" to refer to a single person when I don't want to write "He or she" because I find English majors very irksome so I enjoy irking them.

I consider myself a very open person, but I would never have a "professional blog". It blurs the line between my professional and personal life in a manner that I don't find appealing.

 

Anything I want anybody to know about me is in the "About Us" section of my website.

 

Later,

 

Paulsky

I think its incredibly inappropriate that you refer to people as "guys".

 

Use words such as "rabble", "riffraff" or "plebs". Maybe "...the drunken rabble of trailer trash proved difficult to herd into a pose because they were too busy having a fight" would be far more accurate.

 

I really need to vet my clients better....

I get comments from the people a post is about, but not very often. More often than not they will tell me in person how much they liked the blog post about their portraits. I've gotten 3 comments on pictures from total strangers. I have never gotten anything even remotely upsetting to me, it's all been very nice. However I have gotten targeted by spammers a couple of times, but I'm a terrible target because my blog is extremely low on visitors.

The customer is always right ... listen to him and take it to heart.

 

Ok guy?

:-) I agree with William listen to the customer but print out his comments and take it off your blog. Don't blogs have option where you can review the messages/comments first before you approve it?

It wasn't a comment, it was a direct email so I'm not concerned with having to delete it. I strongly disagree with everyone. My website is professional, my blog is personal. It's not as if I wrote in my posts, "Hi B*tches!" That would obviously be offensive. He did not claim to be offended, he was just "irked." I simply used a slang term. There's a thing called freedom of speech and I have the choice to write what I want. He has the choice of whether to read it or not. What if a random person wrote to you and said, I love your website, but please make it blue instead of black because black irks me. I think that THAT is inappropriate. Maybe you're not seeing my point of view so I'm not even going to try to win this argument.

<i>What if a random person wrote to you and said, I love your website, but please make it blue instead of black because black irks me. </i><P>

If I weren't too busy, I'd probably send them a quick note thanking them for the kind words about my website. I wouldn't change the color, but I wouldn't be upset that someone thought I should change it.

The customer is not always right. But the customer is always the customer.

 

Thank the customer for his point of view (if you feel like it) and then do whatever you want.

Believe it or not, BLOGs are going to be better appreciated and more powerful if you are yourself and personable rather than having it sound like a resume. If you want to put 'guys' you should be able to IF that is your persona. I tend to be a bit of a writer myself, so my blogging style isn't quite as casual.

 

A good book (which I haven't gotten all teh way through yet) is 'Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers'

by Robert Scoble.

 

As far as rude comments, I had one that was a little rude regarding the subject in a photo I posted so I deleted it and reposted it omitting the inappropriate part.

If I wanted people to know what I thought of the experience of shooting their wedding then I would file for bankrupcy now and get it over and done with! ;-)

I have a blog, and use it often....... very rarely get comments. If I did get something rude it would be deleted immediately..... Above all your blog if you are using it to promote your business needs to be professional, and positive about the clients you have! Many of clients and my own family (!) come to my blog to see what happening in my life, and my business.......

 

Keep it positive!

I understand and sympathise with his point. I would suggest that you thank him for taking the time to write and consider his view. Once you blog and put yourself out in cyberspace you leave yourself open to a public that may not always agree with you, that's life. As Fritz Perls said: "I do my thing and you do yours......."