How to Handle Negative Comments ?
Positive comments always motivate you to write Quality articles on your blog. But you don’t always get good comments for what you write; you get both types of comments that are negative and positive comments. But if you look optimistically most of the times negative comments helps you to improve your writing style, blog design or quality of articles.
But when you start getting negative comments, which you and your article doesn’t deserve, you start feeling guilty, which can create problems in achieving your goals. Sometimes people just love to post negative comments even if the article and topic both are useful, such people are called as negative thinkers. Even you face such comments on your blog, you must know how to handle such comments. Here are few tips to handle negative comments:
#1 Know your Comments
You will surely receive negative comments, either you might be getting or you will get later. Know what the Comment is about, if you think that comment is valid then try to improve yourself and if you think comment is not valid, then reply politely while giving facts in your reply.
#2 Respond to Comments
Always respond to comments either you like it or not, try to face them rather to Avoid them like deleting or ignoring it. Reply politely; never feel insulted that someone has posted bad comment on your blog.
#3 Your Reply Reflects your Personality
People know that there is a real person behind your blog, so whenever you reply to negative comment, be cool and choose appropriate and good words. If you use bad words or show anger in your comments, your loyal readers won’t like it. Thus, don’t panic when you get negative comments and try to resolve it politely as soon as possible.
#4 Prefer to Mail on Harsh Comments
While you start blog, you should be clear about limits of negative comments. If you think that someone is putting very bad comments regularly on your blog, which is useless and just to ruin your online Reputation then you should mail that person before approving that comment. Mail politely asking about the intension’s behind negative comments. The person will surely respond you politely or might not post any more useless negative comments.
Getting negative comments is not a bad thing, rather it helps to become better blogger. Each and every blogger started as a beginner and keep on learning tips and tricks to be successful through comments either positive or negative. Thus, while dealing with negative comments try to be polite and humble because blogging is a learning process.
Hope you found it useful. Do you get negative comments? Share with us! Happy Blogging!!
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i am not even getting positive comments then what’s the need in thinking about these negative comments.
Be happy, someone is reading your post if you get good and bad comments.
Crazy blogger, don’t worry, you will Positive comments, i have started commenting on your blog. posts are good, keep it up.
Are you sure you are not getting positive comments? Let me go over there now and leave you one good positive Comment.
I’ll leave a positive Comment too.
For your effort of Comment matter, i will help you get positive comment. Start from me who become commentator itself.
Lax, its an interesting topic, for me, i just deleting the same. Unfortunately most of my comments are application for television reality shows,most of them sending me their phone numbers to contacts, i am just deleting the same.
Because I am a positive person and my posts reflect that I don’t expect to receive negative comments. But in the event that I Do, I would never delete them or ignore them. If a negative person wants to leave a unwarranted negative Comment then I will definitely leave it there for all my readers to see and that person will be shown as the negative person they are. Unless of course they leave it anonymously then I would delete it and block their IP address. LOL:)
Blogging should be fair and friendly…not evil and negative.
I Do agree with you. Even if you receive negative feedback, you shouldn’t look at it in a negative way. Valid negative comments are good Tools to improve your blogging skills.
Hey that makes two of us. I’m an optimist person too and I like to see things in a positive ways …well most of the time.
Then you are a lucky person ZXT. Lucky people tends to see brighter side of negative things according to a study conducted by a famous person.
One good example is this, a person who fell from the stairs, broke his leg. He said, “I’m a lucky person, I only broke my leg. I would have died if I broke my neck.”
Negative comments are good too. you may say, “I’m a lucky person, because someone is spending his time writing comments for me.”
Nice analogy Renino. I will keep that in mind.
That’s nice people if we can 100% be like that. Even it’s hard, but it’s also a training for us to be more high Quality human.
We should not bother about negative comments and answer it firmly.
Yeah, we should answer it objectively and professionally. Let’s not get emotional if someone criticizes our work.
Yes lets try not to be personal. But of the Comment is personal then don’t approve it or just delete it.
I think, if it will not benefit the readers, it’s much better not to approve the Comment. right?
ya just ignore it why take tension if it does not benefit to anyone
Agree, better than respond and waste a time to take care that kind of Comment, it’s better to take care of reader who give good comment, we should treat them as king.
But lets see if the negative Comment bring the bad image to the commentator itself. Nowadays reader is smart to know who is right and wrong. The process is so automatic. So, delete or no is no longer a problem.
It really depends on the negative comments. There are different kind of negative comments. Some negative comments though won’t contribute in any ways so its better to delete them. I see these from other blogs. Fortunately I never had these really bad negative comments.
I think It is Also Good TO Get Negative Comments since it will help us to improve more and if someone unnecessarily sends negative comments always and u know he is doing it just for fun then better ignore him
How can we avoid these kinds of people? If I’m to setup my own blog, I don’t want people who only wants to destroy my site.
Always Moderate Comments dont just approve all…if u feel the Comment is not good delete….thus u r ignoring it
Easy Renino. Comments are moderated. So if its a negative Comment then don’t approve it. Or if its already approved then just delete it.
Thanks ZXT. SO I think the best way to configure Comment settings is this: All comments must be moderated first. I think I heard that you can set the system to just moderate only the first 5 comments of that person. Once you’ve approved the first 5, then all succeeding comments are automatically approved by the system. Right?
Yes you can set it that way but the norm is only 1. When you approved a Comment then succeeding comments will automatically approved. If you set it for 5 then you might lose some comments.
If the system available, would like to use also. So even there is a people with bad Comment, at least their should make 5 post which moderated first
How if the negative Comment itself already become discussion by another reader on the article? Should we delete it?
It’s easy dealing with negative comments in your own blog. It’s yours to begin with and you’re within your rights to be dictatorial about what gets approved or not, but what’s more problematical is if you’re getting fried alive in someone else’s blog. Do you go over and make your case in his/her blog? What if the owner doesn’t exercise restraint and unleash his attack dogs (loyal readers) on you?
Hmmm, I thought these things only happen in forums. I didn’t know that bloggers are attacking co-bloggers on someone else’s blog. Well, in this case, I don’t know if you can Do something about it. Because, it’s like hitting you from behind.
Yes you are right Renino. Bloggers attacking another bloggers is not usual unlike in forums. In forums most people true identities are hidden. In blogs, usually people knows bloggers true names, where he’s at and the likes.
Thats why in blogging, its more personal than in forums and attacks are less usual.
Thanks for that information. So when I setup my own blog, I also have to reveal my own name? Well, I think that doesn’t matter anymore. look at me, my whole name is posted across TZI posts.
Not really Renino. You can just leave your nickname or handle but usually bloggers are known by their real first name. I use ZXT because I’ve been using it since 1999.
Yes Jan, I completely agree with you on your statement.
But just ignoring is the best way sometime.
Well, that works sometimes.
Yes but don’t approve it if you are going to ignore it. I mean why let the person spread negative comments (bad negative comments) in the first place.
negetive comments are also necessary for blogers so that they can find their mistakes it should be as welcome as positive.
nice topic.
Ya i also told this sometimes negative comments can help us too nd improve our blog in a positive way
my blog still new so maybe i no need to worry about it just yet, sometime people try expressing their opinion but in such a bad way hence negative Comment. It is not only author should care about this, the commentator also need to care about thing like this.. they must say something concrete, where there are proof.. don’t just hit just to get attention.
Once again, if its really negative and won’t help in anything then don’t approve it or if its approved already then delete it.
I usually don’t get negative comments on my blog . But i think it is better to ignore negative comments at times.
for me, negative comments are much more than comments..they are my critics and at the same time, they are my inspiration
It depends on what kind of negative comments. Some negative comments are only there to attack you.
Great idea to contact the “negative commenter” to ask for their intentions, before approving the Comment. I like it.
ya May be they wanted to say something for the betterment but that went into a negative way of explanation…
Hahaha this is a great post, me on the other hand I take bad comments and make them look even more stupid. Once a Comment crosses the line it opens the door for me to Do the exact same thing
I know John…I saw it many times.
Nice conversation going on here! Comment can be positive and negative. But it should not focs on personal life of any blogger. Comment on his work is totally acceptable at it decides the maturity or illness of the post. WordPress comes with amazing comment moderation feature, so that we can edit any comment before make it public, so half of the issue ends here.
Yes I agree…no personal attacks otherwise thats crossing the line.