Your Comments Should Be Encouraging, Helpful, or Constructive

Otherwise, why are you commenting?

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There are certain people who won’t appreciate this brief article or agree with anything I say in it. These people fall into one of the following categories:

• People who are bitter or hateful
• People who are easily offended and/or perpetually outraged
• People who don’t like other people
• People who are clueless but highly opinionated

One could make the argument that (sadly) most people (at least most people with Internet access) fall into one or more of those categories.

This brief article is for the few of you who don’t.

Here’s a good rule of thumb for all of us to follow…

If you communicate, add value. And if you don’t have any value to add, don’t communicate.

Otherwise, you’re wasting your energy and other people’s time.

How can you add value when you comment on other people’s articles?

• You can encourage the writer or others reading that writer’s piece
• You can constructively criticize the article