Bonjour, mes amis! This post is part of an awesome blogging challenge that all of the PLP students have been required to enter! Each week there is a new task to complete, which helps us improve our blogging skills and experience and connect with other fellow bloggers. We have started the challenge three weeks late, so we’re doing some catchup work, but it’s all good. Week one was about creating an About Me page which I have done, as you can see. This here is week two, which is about comments. We were required to create some commenting guidelines that included our do’s and don’t’s of commenting. Here is the page I came up with!

Another part of this week’s challenge was leaving quality comments on others’ blog posts. Here are the ones that I left:

This is my comment on Mason’s blog post that included his commenting guidelines. I left this comment on Mason’s post because he included some great basic guidelines that I think are definetly relevant and important when commenting. He talked about how a comment should actually be set up as a formal inquiry, and I think that’s something quite important— not what you say, but how you say it (what you say is also very significant, don’t get me wrong). My comment touching on my thoughts about his post is accurate because I wrote formally and addressed him by his name, as well as signed off with my name. I would consider this a quality comment!

My second comment was left on Leslie’s blog. Her guidelines, though simple, were informative and included some things that I hadn’t thought of. I really liked how she talked about the length of the comment— one to two sentences seems to be about right. That’s just enough to get your point across and avoid rambling on and on. This can also lead to going off topic, which is another thing Leslie discouraged in her guidelines. I put this in my template too, and I think it’s a good idea to include. You’re not writing a story… just a comment! To stay true to this, I left a short message on her blog, and again, signed off as Millie. Another quality comment left!

The third comment I left was on Fatima’s blog. She talked about how a comment should be easy to understand. I think this is a very important and true element of commenting, especially in this blogging challenge. There are people from around the world, and some of these people do not have English as their first language. Speaking clearly and specifically makes it much easier for them to understand what you’re trying to say! In general, you want to make sure that a comment isn’t hard on the eyes. For my reply to her post, I said that I liked how she talked about this, and that I thought it was an important aspect of commenting. I made sure that my comment was decipherable and not difficult to read. That was my last quality comment! Yay!

Well well well, it seems that week two of this blogging challenge is complete. Great! Soon you will see week three! I hope that these comments help you write a good comment yourself! Please feel free to give feedback as well!

Sincerely, Millie (in honour of my signature blog sign-off!)