As bloggers, our main goal is to get our readers to interact with our site by leaving comments. We want them to come back again and again to grow our own community of loyal readers and comment contributors. However, sometimes the comments you receive are not quite the quality you expected. Yvonne Russell, author of the blog Grow Your Writing Business, has written a list of cute tongue in cheek commenting tips in the article titled “Tips To Make Other Bloggers Hate You - Comment Crazy“.
The one that irritates me the most is number 4. When you want to promote a positive attitude on your blog, negative pot stirring comments can ruin the whole atmosphere. All at once, that commentor has made the conversation toxic and possibly turned off your other readers. So what do you do, do you delete the comment? By all means, opinions are one thing but consider the tone of the blog before you stir up trouble.
Thanks for highlighting my tongue in cheek post about commenting. It was a ton of fun, and the people who commented on the post, got right into the spirit of the fun.
A lot of things said in jest, are oh so true!
That’s a cute post. I’ve seen some of these crazy commenters who leave flame comments on my blog get out of hand quick. And many of them take it very personally, like it’s their mission to organize a fight or a stance. Your not contributing useful information or sharing your thoughts by doing that. Unless it’s truly a topic that you’re passionate about. Other than that, be polite. Because if you’re not, it can honestly have some real repercussions. Some of these people will follow you around on the net continuously slamming you. It gets a bit frightening. So please, be kind to others
The important thing is to not let them put your reputation in jeopardy.
It’s so important for the blog owner to participate. Of course, you don’t want to seem to be monopolizing and stifling conversation, either, by having the blog owner constantly commenting.
Still I am surprised at the number of bloggers who NEVER — and I mean never — respond to a comment.
– Anita
I try to respond to comments on my blog with a personal email.
I have had some experiences of example #4 on my blog. Often it worked out well by letting my fellow bloggers and readers to respond to the negative commentator in the comment thread. I have almost been thinking of ending my blogging after unfair comments by hostile visitors, but I have always been back on the right track again, after doing some introspection and coming to grip on why I really want to continue my blogging. It is a great value to me and a few wacky comments will not stop me.
Oops! At the risk of being labeled as a “pr” stunt, I have to write another comment. Please note my new URL address. It is my first name.last name and then .name. Not the old type .com.
The change of the domain name is a story for itself. If you are curious, I am saying as the “red-dog.com”: “visit my blog http://www.yourblog.com/“. Pun intended! 
Hi Anita
Good point about the blog owner leaving space for commenters to discuss with each other too, rather than monopolizing the conversation.
It’s a fine balance, isn’t it?
Well, there are a few things that both blog authors as well as people leaving comments need to watch for. Negative, offensive, and impolite comments are just not tolerable. A healthy blog community organically takes care of bad apples making such offenses. I have often seen them getting followed around and weeded out.
At the same time though, the author needs to have the resilience to take comments from those who do not opine with him or her. I have also seen authors taking offense on healthy discussions and slamming people who disagree with them. Such an approach is often destructive to the blog community.