Here’s this week’s RetroPoll. Vote on our home page and nominate other suggestions on our Facebook page or in the comments below.

If you’re like us, you’re gratified when another user comments on one of your stories. It means they not only read it, but were engaged enough to respond. As founders, we love comments because they also mean that a community has formed.

However, comments don’t appear automatically on the site. We leave it to you, the story author, to moderate them. This helps us exclude spam, trolls, and abusive material, as specified in our Community Guidelines.

When someone comments on one of your stories, you’ll get an email to moderate it. By clicking a link in the email, you can approve, trash (discard), or spam it (discard and report as spam). This gives you full control over the comments that appear on your stories.

Alternatively, when you sign into Retrospect, you’ll see a comment icon and a number in the top right corner, next to your name. If the number is more than zero, you have comments waiting. Click the icon to go to your Comments page, which shows all comments on your stories as well as comments you have made. Comments awaiting moderation appear shaded in beige.

We ask that you moderate comments promptly. If you don’t, we may do it for you.

You can also turn off comments entirely for any story you choose. On the Add or Edit Story page, scroll down to the Discussion section and uncheck Allow Comments.

To share a story, simply click one of the icons at the top of the story to share it on Facebook, Twitter, or by email. Or click the + icon to share on a wide choice of other social media.

You’ll see an initial social sharing message that you can customize as you wish. For example, here’s the window you get when sharing to Facebook:

Just specify where or to whom to share, add your message, and click Post.

As always, please let us know how this works for you and tell us your thoughts on sharing stories. Use the Contact link at the bottom right corner of the site, write us at:

team@myretrospect.com, or post a comment below.

For the near future, Retrospect will discontinue weekly prompts. The last scheduled prompt was “All’s Well that Ends Well,” posted on Retrospect’s home page on December21. After that…

Writers can continue to post new stories on Retrospect’s existing prompts at “Past Prompts” or “My Own Topic.“

Readers can still enjoy Retrospect’s rich and extensive archive of stories searchable by topic or author and comment on existing stories as before.

We hope you’ll drop by Retrospect to explore, comment, or even contribute to Retrospect’s labyrinth of memories, dreams, and reflections.

Write on!
The Retrospect Team