Oct 10, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for advice, feedback, and friendly blogging chatter.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

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Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
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  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
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  5. https://betheeverythinggirl.com/2016/10/16/true-adulthood-well-almost/

    hey all! I am trying to break into the blogging world and reach teenage girls to women in their late 20s, or anyone who wants to read! I was to add a positive vibe to their lives and want them to love who they are, even though some of my posts wont be exactly about those things, a lot of just fun reads! I would love your feedback on my writing style or just constructive criticism!!! I will also comment on yours!

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  9. Hello, I’m looking for some advice on a little issue I had with my blog recently. It’s a bit long winded – apologies:

    Recently I wrote a post about true character. I wanted to blog honestly about positive and negative aspects of my own character. Sometimes I think we put forwards a fake front and it creates a lot of pressure to be perfect.

    I highlighted a few of my negative traits; they were that I am timid, lack confidence and that I wasn’t good at taking care of family pets (walking regularly etc.).

    I had one lovely kind comment. 

    But then I had another anonymous comment from a lady who said my post was ‘self indulgent nonsense’; but in less kind words.

    The thing that really made me uncomfortable was that this person said they knew me and my family from when I was young. This person is definitely not a friend on any social network and not someone I remember or know was following me.

    My intention with blogging was really just to write about some of the truths of life from my perspective as a way to share life with a blogging community online. I am not comfortable with people from my past making judgements and comments on me from my writing; which anyone is highly simplified version of real life. 

    As a result of this:

     – I have removed all reference to my real name from my blog

     – I have de-linked facebook / twitter etc.

     – I have changed my facebook privacy to make my posts there visible to friends only.

    I want to ask fellow bloggers, how do you deal with hurtful comments, and how do you deal with people that may know you but not like you reading your blog (that you are not even aware of)?

    (www.hakkanotogame.wordpress.com)

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    1. I’m sorry to hear about this negative and hurtful interaction on your blog. You raise some important questions, touching on some of the main tensions that blogging on one’s own experiences and emotions (even if anonymously) might bring to the surface. Here are some posts and resources that might be helpful.

      First, one immediate step to consider is more stringent comment moderation. Here are a couple of links with more information:

      For broader considerations on separating your blogging-self from real-life-self and responding (or not) to negative comments, here are a couple more posts with ideas and pointers:

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