Worthychat Administrator Blogs – A Guide
I created this page for the purpose of making the blogs easier to use. If this is your first time visiting the blogs, you might be curious about what they are all about, so let’s start there.
The blogs were originally intended to give the Chat Administrators a place to record some of their thoughts, in the hopes that chatters could get to know us better, and more quickly. What the admins write about, is their choice, it could be about some personal experiences, or thoughts they have, or commentary on world events or results of personal Bible study, you never know what you will find here.
That last thought, is my main purpose on this page – making it easier to discover what exactly it is that you will find here, a table of contents, so to speak. I will get to that later.
For now, I want to tell you what to expect as you enter the blogs. As I said, the chat admins have the opportunity to maintain a blog in this area of Worthy. So do so, most do not. If you are a chat admin and want to blog here, send me a message and we will get you set up. For the rest of you, you can not blog here, but you can read the blogs of the admins, and comment on them at the end, if the author has enabled comments, most do.
When you read a blog there will be the words “no comments” or “add comments” or an areas saying how many comments exist. Clicking that, will bring you to the comment area. Also, at the bottom of the blog article, there is a “leave a reply function” – same thing. If you elect to comment, there is one thing you should know before you spent a lot of time typing out a response. Your comments are screened before they will show up.
Now, there isn’t a formal list of do’s and don’t on comments, but here are some guidelines if you want your comment approved.
1 . No Spamming. This means if you attempt to promote something, most likely it will not be approved. This is true whether it is blatant or stealthy. For example, if you were to say:
“Like I point out on my website, www.nothinghere.google.com, yada yada yada” , your comment might not be approved. Same can go for mentioning a book title, or a product etc. It is up to the discretion of the person approving or denying comments, but leave references to such things out, to assure success.
2. Promotion or even mentioning of “wild ideas, conspiracy theories, or asserting doctrine that can not be demonstrated by scripture, will likely get you comment blocked, unless it adds something meaningful to the topic, as judged by the administrator reviewing the comments.
3. Inclusion of swear words, intentionally mean or threatening language, or failure to show the proper respect to any person, will likely get your message blocked.
4. If your comment is not about the topic, it might be blocked. A comment like “Hi, I am new here, this is a nice website”, will not be posted because it has no relevance to the topic or the author of the topic. However, a comment like “Thanks for the thoughtful article” will probably be included because it encourages the author to write more blogs.
Comments are the only way we have of knowing that anyone is reading these blogs. If the admins are under the impression that few are reading the blogs, most likely the blogs will be few and far between. If you do not see your comment post on the site, and you followed the above guidelines – be patient, it can take some time for the comment to be read an approved.
O.K. Now, for the table of contents. This will be an ongoing work, and at times may be out of date, not showing the most recent blog installments. Even now, that is a problem, as I am out of time, but, I will return to create the contents, with links to the articles, and a short description of them.
Patience, is a fruit of the Spirit