Do you delete responses?

Published on August 16, 2006 By Question of the Day In Blogging

I have yet to delete any responses to my articles/questions? I'm open to everyone's comments even if I don't agree with them and even if they are harsh.

So, have you deleted any reponses and if so where did you draw the line?

Comments

Jythier

on Aug 16, 2006

I see very few reasons to delete responses. However, on one of my articles, someone posted a response, in Spanish, about baseball. I wrote an article about softball, but this definitely wasn't that one. So I deleted it after translating it, though I knew enough Spanish to know that it was completely unrelated.

Deference

on Aug 16, 2006

Only two occasions warrent deleting a post.

The first is spam from spambots.

The second is screens-worth of repetitive lines of off-topic declarations meant only to harass the maintainer of the blog and / or those commenting on it.

Otherwise, allow 'problem' users to be dealt with by moderators. Those users will leave behind a record of reasons for their dismissal from the JU site.

BlueDev

on Aug 16, 2006

Darn double post.

BlueDev

on Aug 16, 2006

Only random spam-bot responses, and once where I specifically requested a certain topic not be discussed further, with warning I would delete responses along those lines. Then someone just had to see if I really would.

Deference

on Aug 18, 2006

Good Response.

Genghis Hank

on Aug 18, 2006

Never had to so far. I'm still trying to get more responses to my articles LOL!

Dr Guy

on Aug 18, 2006

Yep. But not because of disagreement.

Shovelheat

on Aug 18, 2006

I delete whole blogs...

Question of the Day

on Aug 18, 2006

I delete whole blogs...

Yours or other people's?

Oh, just for the record I have deleted some SPAM from one of my articles.

Dr Guy

on Aug 18, 2006

Oh, just for the record I have deleted some SPAM from one of my articles.

most of us do.

Trudygolightly

on Aug 19, 2006

I have in a moment of anger, don't think I would do that again though. Sometimes it's best for me to just leave it, then come back to it and then choose.

Would delete something if it offended me enough.

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