If you run a blog or message board here is some advise that you will treasure : approve comments or message board posts that are against your own opinion. Why? Because controversy will bring you more readers than you ever thought possible.
I know a fellow blogger from a few years ago. She runs an animal blog. She is a avid anti- horse slaughter person. When she published a blog post a few years back called "Eating your Pets" she got over 2000 visitors a day to that one blog post for at least a month. It is not the post itself but the comments that people were intrigued with. You see people love to read the comments on the blog posts just as much as they read the blog itself. Just look at any of the MSN news articles that allow comments. The comments are often more interesting than the article.
Just this morning I published a comment that was of a different opinion than my own and I welcome it because it will bring in more readers. I am very open minded as well as speaking my own mind on this blog. Controversy works for me and other successful blog owners.
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I know that controversy really does well on one of my blogs. I sometimes have to put a flame suit on just to wade into the comment section. But it does bring back lots and lots of readers that I wouldn't normally have.
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