However, what you don't want is spam - someone using your blog to advertise their products or services or leaving some nonsense comments to lead your readers away to their own blog.
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Some blog writers simply turn off their comments all together. That is one option. Something else you can do is enable comment moderation. If you do this, every time someone leaves a comment on your blog it will first be sent to you privately in your email. You decide there whether to allow the comment to be published on the blog or to block it.
For most cases on a new personal blog heavy comment traffic will not be a concern. But if you do want to manage the comments on your blog, do the following:
Go to SETTINGS (left menu of dashboard or design page)
then click on Posts, comments and sharing.(beneath SETTINGS in that same left menu)
Next you can select from several options:
While comment moderation does give you absolute control, if you write a very popular blog that generates many comments it can be time consuming to manage them all.
Another option is to enable word verification. This requires your readers to re-type a word they will be shown to prove to the blog management system that it is a real person wanting to add a comment. This will screen out automated robots that can leave annoying spam but it won't screen out actual human beings who might make a remark you find rude or inappropriate.
You can always delete a comment somebody else posts if you don't want it showing on your blog. However, most blogs will have some level of comment moderation to keep rude or inappropriate comments from ever being seen there at all.
For more information on comment moderation see:
Manage your blog's comments (Google)
How to enable comment moderation and filer spam in blogger (mybloggerlab.com)
Comment moderation in blogger (YouTube)
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