Who is responsible for blog comments

Some blogger, however, prefer the sycophants as opposed to the beautiful diversity of a great community. Now this was a great reminder. Anyway a good point to bring up to the legal team. I was also told that it might be a good idea to state in a disclaimer that anything you write in a blog are your own thoughts and opinions and does not represent the views of anyone else. Have you heard that before?

I think that would be a VERY useful statement for people who are employees of a company not related to their blog to put forth. Excellent, Richard. Thanks for throwing that into the mix. You are so right, the internet never forgets. There are lotsa stories out there about people who have lost jobs or wordlessly not hired due to pictures posted on FaceBook and other sites. Much spam lately though. Glad you found the resources useful, Mike…but be careful what you ask for.

Thanks for this Erika. The Mom Rule rocks! I like the email verification tool. And if you get that email verification functionality done, ping me. I had an incident on my blog where someone searched for me under a term that qualified as snooping aka paparazzi on a good friend of mine.

Good on ya that you kept it private! Thank you for the very important reminder. I am now thinking to deleting those borrowed pictures I got from flickr.

Flickr can be a fabulous — and completely legit — source for images. I like stock. All the pictures are clearly marked right beside the download button.

Some you can use without having any restrictions. I suppose you could just save the thumbnail if you really wanted to get around it though. I like to credit the source with a link back to the source image as much as possible. I also like to put an encouraging comment on the image page. There is also a message mechanism that allows you to notify the owner.

You have dealt with two issues I have been thinking about lately — images and comments. I had a comment in one of my blogs and I was wondering what to do about it. He said he can increase the ranking of my website. However, the interesting thing is that he cant be traced or so I thought then.

When I clicked on his name, it took me to an error page. So I was really contemplating going to delete the comment and at the same time wondering if it was mean to do so. Maybe I should start moderating like copyblogger or apply the comment policy as you suggested. Please let me know when you put up yours so I know what a comment policy should look like. You will find that there are lots of comments that will come to your blog that are just automated spam.

The comment you describe probably had nothing to do with your post — am I right? They should have approached you through your contact page instead. NO harm in deleting that. Lone Wolf gave you some great resources. Great Post. Never knew that such a service exists. Really useful Erica.

It never hurts to go back to basics and reflect on what we say and how we say it. I tend towards the polite end of the scale on and offline and in nearly 4 years of blogging have never had a rude comment. Excellent point — and we should also remember that facial expressions and sarcasm are sometimes all the time? Sarcasm can easily pass for just being a jerk. Love this. I have to agree that the ethics is not very sexy at all but so important.

The unGoogle goes further than the rant on a comment, a crazy tweet — it also red flags you when you steal from others. Many tend to forget that big brother is watching and what we say is a reflection of who we are even if we were having a bad moment.

Popularity is shadowing common sense and the price to pay can be hefty. If this article did not scare the pants off people, what is going on here in LV should. There are lawsuits to the tune of 75K being filed without a cease and desist to anyone that links to an article of a certain local paper. If you are unaware of this, oh girl do track me down as this would be of high interest to you I believe.

As as for the trolls, well they exist just to exist and be that person. Hopefully they will see this article and take a look at the unGoogle part and think twice. This has really opened my eyes and made me aware of this issue although I do not leave derogatory comments on blogs and social media. I continually read posts and comments and do feel the people who feel the need to be offensive have no back bone.

Hopefully this will make them think twice before continuing this kind of behaviour!! Erika, Nice post. I think the struggle for so many of us now as blogging grows is we have full-time day jobs, so reminders like this that our blogs like it or not, making money or not are part-time businesses and need to be treated as such.

Pretty sure you have a post that says just that over on your blog. Thanks, Jim. The team at Copyblooger has been kind to me. Great advice, Erika. Write your blog like your mother is reading it. Although in reality, my Mom is not online, I use this as a simple, common sense approach to guide my posts.

Would she approve or disapprove? It has worked amazingly well on keeping them accountable too. This is great advice! I was just reading a blog post this morning from a blogger who got fired from her job because of something that she tweeted. Nothing is as anonymous as it seems online!

Wonder if Big Brother made that happen? These tips are really practical i have to say and i never thought of some of the points you mentioned here. This post has got me really thinking very deep. I would love to steal this blog! I will, however, direct some of my fellow blog writers to it!

Boy am I glad I read this one today! Excellent points, Erika! Two thumbs up to you for touching on ethics. It is important to remember that what we say here is said out loud, in public and can be overheard!

The last time I had anything to leard about copyrighting, term papers were still done on typewriters. But now that I have found this site, I think I might not hate learning about it so much anymore…actually looking forward to it. Thanks much for sharing with the rest of us! Great tips, Erika. I only post images from reputable photo companies.

Additionally I provide credit with a mention and backlink to the company or artist supplying the photo. I moderate all blog comments and will not allow postings that link to adult sites. I get trolled from a specific location but the only thing the staff at TypePad will allow for is blocking comments not an entire ISP. What suggestions do you have?

Joseph, I wish I had some better insights for you regarding TypePad. A person must sign in to leave comments. And in addition to moderating all comments I can block people based on keywords and known spam IP addresses. These are useful options but I am concerned about content scrapers and would like to cover an entire range of IPs and thus make it much more difficult for nefarious individuals to visit my site. I think you might be worrying too much about keeping people out. Scrapers are always going to find you — even Copyblogger has that issue.

Perhaps so. But it always pays to be safe. And I now have a new tool thanks to this article: email address verification. Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to primary sidebar. Proper accreditation If you use photos in your blog posts, use legitimate sources for images. Understanding libel Ohhhhh — legalese! You are not invisible Some people imagine that the internet lets them don a Cloak of Invisibility that bestows permission to do whatever the hell they want.

If you continuously receive spam comments or inappropriate comments from a particular commenter, you can block an entire IP address from your blog. If you need help with this, just ping your comments system or hit up the WordPress Codex for tips on combating spam and unwanted comments. Disqus and IntenseDebate have built-in blacklist features.

The best thing I can do here is to put just a bit of healthy fear into you. Thanks for the great post Talk soon Hector. If I can help in any other way, just say the word! I love the nefariousness of that Bad Behavior idea! Disclaimer: Notice no links.

What you were doing is exactly what we use Akismet to prevent. Inforrm has an article here. The publishers of the Mail on Sunday will appeal next week against their humiliating defeat in the copyright and privacy case brought by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

The Duchess sued and won in the London High Court after the paper had published substantial extracts from a letter she wrote to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. Inforrm can be contacted by email inforrmeditorial gmail. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Sign me up! The Privacy Perspective Blog, freelance writer. In this Reuters article we see that Sun Microsystems has warned their employee bloggers that embarrassing any Sun customer in a blog is very dangerous:.

Sun's bloggers also are cautioned to protect corporate secrets and that "using your Web log to trash or embarrass the company, our customers, or your co-workers, is not only dangerous but stupid. Some of the opinions are fairly harsh, with some people stating things like:. In my opinion, all xxx is is just a bunch of cheep everyday crooks.

They should all be in jail. They do not even check the time zones of who they are calling? I line in Hawaii.. Can anything be done to stop these people?!?! This blogger also lists the text of the blogger libel lawsuit , which alleges that the Defendant is responsible for the words of others, in this case because of his alleged malicious intent:. Also at unknown date or dates, Defendants maliciously published or caused to be published false and defamatory information over the internet concerning Plaintiff and Plaintiff's business.

Pursuant to Defendant's malicious intent, the publication has been read by the public. The false and defamatory matter is calculated to damage Plaintiff's reputation, and at the time Defendants published or caused to be published such false and defamatory information about the Plaintiff over the internet, Defendants knew that the information published was false and defamatory and making such defamatory publication, Defendants acted with malice toward the Plaintiff.

It's a wide world for the blogger. Blog and forum publishers have been successfully hailed into foreign legal battles, and the current consensus is that the blogger must know the scope of their liability across the planet. In this article, a retired judge Fadeley notes that offering DMCA protection to bloggers and web authors is a serious loophole in the DMCA, and that new legislation is required to make bloggers and "cyber bullies" responsible for damage to people.

Posting comments on the internet is akin to writing the same comments to the letters page of every major national newspaper in the world. The international scope of blogs mean that claims in any country are possible - territorial limits are a thing of the past. Bloggers must also be aware of their responsibilities as hosts of discussions where comments are invited from readers. Any defamatory comments made in other posts on the blogger's website may result in the blogger being held responsible for those comments and being sued for libel.

Defamation legislation gives a defence where the 'publisher' the blogging host has no knowledge of the defamatory remarks or no reason to suspect the remarks have been made.