As many of you know I moderate comments on this blog. I do that for one reason. To keep the content on VoIPWatch on point and topical for each post.
Many times I see comment spam and those are deleted. Other times I see what is clearly an attempt to drive relevancy in search or to try to coattail on a very successful brand by being linked to the story. Those too usually get deleted.
Bottom line. If you want to have a comment posted, do what the word COMMENT means. Comment. Don’t promote.
I think I tried to comment twice on your blog but, unless I am mistaken, these have not been published although I truly believe they were valuable comments relevant to the post. Maybe these were published with a delay which is equally painful because I could not know if my comments had been published or not. Very frustrating for your audience.
I may have made the mistake to mention the name of one of the former companies I worked for but I still think this was appropriate and should have been published as it would have on any other blog out there.
I have also noticed that very few people commented on your blog, probably because of your overzealous, unpublished until now, policy.
After these attempts I have given up commenting on your blog and am considering to stop reading your blog altogether because it sounds too-much like a monoblog to me.
In my blogs I take the opposite approach to comments, I allow all comments and only delete those which are truly spam. I had to delete one comment in a year. This allows a better flow of comments and in some cases allows almost real-time conversations to develop making your blog alive and useful to the community.
You should also take the perspective that comment are the information. What you publish is just an invitation for others to provide all available opinions and information. Deletion should be reserved for extreme cases of obvious spam and abusive language.
Will you publish this comment? If yes, when and how will I know?