Create a Comment Policy

WordPress gives you the power to decide who can and cannot comment on your blog and under what conditions. You can even choose on a post-by-post basis whether people can comment on your blog. In other words, you can be the lone voice or the leader of a free-for-all. The choice is yours.

How Thick Is Your Skin?

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Sharing opinions with readers sounds like a good idea until you get your first flame, a searingly critical comment, or troll, a commenter whose remarks are aimed at provoking argument, often by being nasty. If you love the kind of debate that those provoke, you may not need a comment policy. Otherwise, give it ...

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