Commenting at Church Communications Pro

Hello everyone!  I wanted to take a few of your moments to address a couple of things that have been on my mind lately.

First of all - THANK YOU! Thank you to all of you who read Church Communications Pro, that show us link love and support, and who dialogue with us.  Thanks to our guest writers and even our critics.  We appreciate all of you!

Second, I want to discuss commenting on CCP. We love it when people get involved in the conversation and share what’s on their mind.  We really do!  However, there has been a growing trend lately of some companies trying to promote themselves through our comment sections (and believe me, you can tell the difference between honest conversation and shameless self-promotion) that I have had to make a difficult decision.

Starting immediately I will no longer allow comments to be posted that appear to be strictly promotional in nature.

Since we now offer advertising to companies who want to promote on CCP, I want to provide our sponsors with the best opportunity to reach others with their quality services and products.  Self-promotional comments take away from that.  I also dislike that some people are just plain selfish and only take part in the conversation for recognition…so from now on if a comment gets submitted that falls under what I believe is only a self-promotion deal, it will be immediately deleted and flagged as spam.  Now, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t fill in your website information when submitting a comment, but rather to not include twenty links back to your website. : )

I know that this new rule may sound harsh but I am asking for your understanding in this delicate matter.  Thank you!

- James Dalman, Editor Dude @ Church Communications Pro

July 1, 2008 · Filed Under CCP Talk & News

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5 Responses to “Commenting at Church Communications Pro”

  1. Chris S. on July 1st, 2008 8:08 am

    Doesn’t sound harsh at all! Pretty reasonable actually! Thanks for working to keep the site free of junk for all of us!

  2. James Dalman on July 1st, 2008 10:20 am

    Thanks Chris!

  3. Michael Buckingham (holy cow) on July 8th, 2008 9:13 pm

    I’ve struggled with this before (at my blog holycowablog.com) and it’s certainly a balancing act of encouraging conversation and not creating a beast…sort of like balancing between my home life and running my studio (holycowcreative.org).

    But you have to do what you have to do…we all have our preferences (like this watch I just bought at overstock.com).

    Way to stand your ground (speaking of which I’m selling my house if anyone’s interested)…and I’m just glad I’m not “one of those people.”

    ….I just couldn’t resist, I tried, really I tried.

  4. James Dalman on July 10th, 2008 7:22 am

    Michael,

    Oops! I let your comment slip through the cracks.

    Since you are one of those “starving artists” and you’re having to sell your house, I guess a shameless plug might send you some work to help you keep from selling your Swatch too. And I don’t think you’re one of “those” people at all.

    OK, hopefully you all can read through our sarcasm.

  5. Michael Buckingham (holy cow) on July 13th, 2008 8:45 pm

    I may concede to dressing in all black and buying an empty and dark loft…but I am not selling my Swatch!

    Keep at it…you are definitely one of the good guys. Really looking forward to seeing in you in OK.

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