Take Control of the Conversation or Message

I usually don't like to try and control things - especially when it comes to communication. This is probably why I enjoy social media: companies cannot control their messages. Does that mean they have no control over what happens? No. What it does mean is that they can't control everything.

There are times though in which you just have to take control of the conversation and the message. Maybe someone is going off on something that just doesn't make sense or they are just being either rude, crude, stupid or a combination of all three. When this happens, having someone take control of the conversation or message can help get things back on track to where they should be.

Sadly I had to do this with comments. I am just getting tired of spam comments trying to sell their shoes from a foreign country, comments trying to get you to go to their porn site or just random babble that doesn't make any sense.

So, if you want to comment on my posts, you need to sign in and verify that you are not spam. I don't like to take control of this aspect of communication, but it just had to be done. It is a pain to delete posts if I am not at my computer and approving comments is not something I care to do.

Sometimes it just needs to be done. If you are having an issue regarding communication, one way to fix it is to take control of the conversation and set it on the right track, even if you don't want to do it.

Comments

[OliviaMitchell]

Hi Travis
One solution is to switch to the Wordpress blogging platform and use the Akismet spam filter. Normally it catches all the spam comments for me - just the odd one slips through!
Olivia

[Travis Dahle]

Thanks for the idea Olivia. I've thought about moving over to wordpress, but I do like typepad...but its always a good idea to keep my options open.

Thanks for the comments.

Travis