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> And rewriting a negative comment on your blog? That's just not done. Delete it, but don't rewrite it ever. Why not? Its my blog. Its not like I hid it. Ultim
by pbiggar 17y ago
> And rewriting a negative comment on your blog? That's just not done. Delete it, but don't rewrite it ever.
Why not? Its my blog. Its not like I hid it. Ultimately, to cultivate a good community, you have to have strict rules. Now I'm not exactly curating a massive community here, but it seems like an effective way of discouraging the kind of dickheadedness that was his original comment.
- maxklein 17y agoIt's your blog, but it's not your comment.
- pbiggar 17y agoThat's an interesting perspective. Does the poster "own" the comment on my blog? Do I? Since he has no control over it, is it mine? Is it still his if he posted anonymously? Does the fact that he put my email instead of his in the email box hand control over to me? All interesting philosophical questions. However, since I have editorial control, and determined that he was acting anti-socially, it seems perfectly fine to me to scribble over it (though I could see a problem if I wasn't transparent about it).
- jemfinch 17y agoPeople own their own creations. The power owns (the copyright on) his comment even if he posts it to your blog, unless you've made an agreement otherwise (e.g., in your blog's terms of service). You control what your blog displays, though. There is probably a technical legal difference between deleting a comment (definitely right and legally permissible) and modifying a comment (thus creating a derivative work of a copyright work which you may not be licensed to derive from).