Blogs - Comments, Disclaimers and other stuff.

Blogs- comments, disclaimers.

Recently I've been having a tete-a-tete with Sundar regarding various things. One of the things that came up was regarding disclaimers about the blog-content and the comments of others.
He has a Disclaimer on his blog as well as a disclaimer regarding other's comments. There is a history behind his move that can be read at Disclaimers. In that post he links to another useful resource - Crafting the Perfect Blog Disclaimer.

Sundar also has set of posts about blogging available in the side-bar titled: Blogggging. You can find information that may be of use while blogging. For the LBs I am giving a direct link to some of the posts:
Blogging should be easier
Me scared- are you?
Blog flu
Blogger comments
Blog Spam


Incidentally, the disclaimer on his blog was the smallest, that I couldn't see. See if you can spot it. No hints. If after searching you are about to give-up, just CTRL F Disclaimer, you might locate it.

Lurking, Delurking and Comments Policy

Boos recent post, Here's to more comments prompted me to write this post. She writes about lurkers and the move to delurk them. Read about it on her post.

I myself love to have comments to my posts and also responses to my comments. :)

In my travels across the blogworld, I've come across some interesting Comment policies. I did think that some of them were interesting reads by themselves. Unfortunately I did not keep a tab on the sites.

Here are some that I can recall:

Here's what Shelly has on her blog Retrospectacle
Commenter Policy:
I love constructive comments! However, I reserve the right to delete comments that abuse this forum. Voicing your opinions is great, just be respectful. :D
She also asks a question: Is Commenting a Right?

Kevin Vranes of No Se Nada has this comment policy

Mike the Mad Biologist says: Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls.

Razib of Gene expression has this comment policy

Many of the above were from scienceblogs. Now here's one with a religious background

One of the most comprehensive comment policies that I have seen is that of Thinking Girl.

The Darwiniana comment policy states that good comments may be converted into separate posts! That's nice.

How about your own comment policy?

In case you don't have one - here's a post on developing a blog comment policy.

Disclaimer: This is not a comprehensive survey of all possible blog policies. Most were from Scienceblogs and random selections based on a search of blogs using the search string Comment policy