For those who don’t know, there’s a WordPress plugin that can show top commentators in the sidebar. Many WordPress blogs utilize this plugin to reward their readers who regularly leave comments and to also encourage readers to comment more and be more involved. The list does not only display their names, but it also links them to their sites if desired.
This single link can be more helpful than you actually think, John Chow shared an evil top commentators trick earlier this year. So, by using this plugin, the blog and the readers get rewarded. Do they? A problem that could arise from this would be the start of low-quality comments and/or spam. John Cow recently had to ban someone because of this.
A simple way to fix this would be to just display comments after admin approval. However, many bloggers have a busy schedule and/or receive a large amount of comments daily. So, having to wait for admin approval hurts the blog discussion between readers. Spam comments can be easily taken care of, but what about low-quality comments? How will you decide what crosses the line and what doesn’t?
Show top commentators or not? Quantity over quality or quality over quantity?
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Show Top Commentators or Not?
For those who don’t know, there’s a WordPress plugin that can show top commentators in the sidebar. Many WordPress blogs utilize this plugin to reward their readers who regularly leave comments and to also encourage readers to comment more and be more involved. The list does not only display their names, but it also links them to their sites if desired.
This single link can be more helpful than you actually think, John Chow shared an evil top commentators trick earlier this year. So, by using this plugin, the blog and the readers get rewarded. Do they? A problem that could arise from this would be the start of low-quality comments and/or spam. John Cow recently had to ban someone because of this.
A simple way to fix this would be to just display comments after admin approval. However, many bloggers have a busy schedule and/or receive a large amount of comments daily. So, having to wait for admin approval hurts the blog discussion between readers. Spam comments can be easily taken care of, but what about low-quality comments? How will you decide what crosses the line and what doesn’t?
Show top commentators or not? Quantity over quality or quality over quantity?