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Don't include a user comments feature on your blog or web pages.
Don't include a user comments feature on your blog or web pages.
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=== What Problem Does This Solve  ===
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=== What Problem This Solves ===
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In some communities, user discussion in comments may be mostly infantile, hostile, spam or otherwise of little value.  
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In some communities, user discussion in comments may be mostly infantile, hostile, spam or otherwise of little value.
=== When to Use This Pattern  ===
=== When to Use This Pattern  ===
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Use this pattern when your content consistently tackles controversial topics, attracts an unsuitable audience, or if you don't have the time to dedicate to comment moderation or self-moderation.  
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Use this pattern when your content frequently tackles controversial topics, attracts an unsuitable audience, or if you don't have the time to dedicate to comment moderation or self-moderation.
=== What's The Solution?  ===
=== What's The Solution?  ===
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=== Why Use This Pattern  ===
=== Why Use This Pattern  ===
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Comments are a privilege, not a fundamental right: if comments aren't adding value to the original piece of content, they may be negatively impacting opinions about and the quality of your website.  
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Comments are a privilege, not a right: if comments aren't adding value to the original piece of content, they may be negatively impacting opinions about, and the quality of, your website.  
Benefits of a comment-free web page include:  
Benefits of a comment-free web page include:  
*No time required for moderation.  
*No time required for moderation.  
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*Fewer links to unimportant pages (user profiles, in-comment links, other comment UI links), which would have otherwise distributed important internal SEO page-rank "juice".  
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*Decreased anxiety for timid authors about potential hostile comments/reactions.
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*If users can't comment on your web page, they may be more likely to comment on ''their'' website, with a link to your page; you gain the SEO benefits of the incoming link.
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*Fewer links to unimportant pages (user profiles, in-comment links, other comment UI links), which would otherwise distribute important internal SEO page-rank "juice".  
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*If users can't comment on your web page, they may be more likely to comment on ''their'' website, with a link to your page; you gain the SEO benefits of incoming links.
=== Examples Gallery  ===
=== Examples Gallery  ===
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[[Image:Daring-fireball-no-comments.png|thumb|left]]<br>
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[[Image:Daring-fireball-no-comments.png|thumb|left|John Gruber refuses to implement comments on his Daring Fireball blog.]]  
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=== Categories ===
[[Category:Social]] [[Category:Comments]]
[[Category:Social]] [[Category:Comments]]

Latest revision as of 16:57, 13 January 2011

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