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.