Should you respond to jerks on your blog?
For the last few years, that’s been a question I’ve wrestled with. When someone said something rude or mean that comment became like a lighthouse for me. I’d regularly reply to comments that attacked me and ignore a lot of kind, very interesting conversations with other people.
Until my wife punched me in the stomach with a prediction of what was going to happen if I kept going down that path. Here’s what she said:
“If you only respond to jerks on your blog, eventually you’ll create a blog that only jerks read.”
She’s right, if you only reward bad behavior, you only create more bad behavior.
So I stopped responding solely to jerks and started responding to all types of people. Because I don’t want anything I ever write online to become a jerk watering hole, but rather a place where lots of different conversations happen.
You can find his blog and blog post here.
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