Guest Blogging?

[Cam]

Do you allow guests to contribute content and create their own posts on your blog? Why or why not?

 

[Clarendon]

I think guest blogging can be an excellent thing and can enhance the topics and discussion points of your blog, but it does require quite a good team behind it to ensure that the articles are upto scratch, don't contain any offensive material and are grammatically correct, so I see why it is not always favoured over hiring full time editors. I've worked on a couple of Editorial Teams where deciphering peoples articles often killed a lot of my time- sometimes it was fun and taught me new skills editing wise, but other times it was down right frustrating.

 

[Cam]

I think guest blogging can be an excellent thing and can enhance the topics and discussion points of your blog, but it does require quite a good team behind it to ensure that the articles are upto scratch, don't contain any offensive material and are grammatically correct, so I see why it is not always favoured over hiring full time editors. I've worked on a couple of Editorial Teams where deciphering peoples articles often killed a lot of my time- sometimes it was fun and taught me new skills editing wise, but other times it was down right frustrating.

I was actually the Editorial Team Leader Assistant on Forum Promotion a few years ago, so I was responsible for proofreading/editing the many blog posts that were created by members of the community. It was certainly beneficial to allow regular users to contribute to the blog, considering the valuable content that was brought to it. Still, it was a pain. There were plenty of posts that we received that were absolute garbage. There was also a few circumstances where we edited blog posts to the point of where we were basically writing the posts ourselves.

 

[Clarendon]

I was actually the Editorial Team Leader Assistant on Forum Promotion a few years ago, so I was responsible for proofreading/editing the many blog posts that were created by members of the community. It was certainly beneficial to allow regular users to contribute to the blog, considering the valuable content that was brought to it. Still, it was a pain. There were plenty of posts that we received that were absolute garbage. There was also a few circumstances where we edited blog posts to the point of where we were basically writing the posts ourselves. :yum:

Yeah I know your pain. I helped edit articles as the blog began to reopen and while it was fun and rewarding, it was a bit of a pain

 

[forumpro2018]

You can have guest posting on boardhost.com message board
mb.boardhost.com/___

 

[Clarendon]

You can have guest posting on boardhost.com message board
mb.boardhost.com/___

To my knowledge, most softwares and hosts allow guest blogging

 

[forumpro2018]

Yep loll

 

[Clarendon]

Yep loll

Yeah it is an incredibly good thing for blog owners who want to open their blogs upto guests to help contribute to

 

[Sean Quinn]

I prefer comments from people that join, but i still do let guest commenting on my blog entries.