Includes the following conduct:

Comment Approval Required -- I've seen the term "blog nazi" used in relation to people who have their blogs set so that the blogger must approve all comments. In fact, that is the context in which I remember first seeing the term soon after I joined Myspace. One point made by those who have used the term in reference to these bloggers is that the practice stifles free speech. It's censorship at its finest. It goes way beyond deleting comments that are offensive or unacceptable to the blogger, because it ensures that the information never reaches the general public for comment, at all, if the blogger so chooses. It's the ultimate control over one's own blog and comments.

I confess, when I first started blogging, I set it so that I had to approve all comments. I didn't do it to control the content of the comments on my blog. At that time, I had few enough readers that it was the only way I knew to keep from obsessively checking every two minutes to see if someone had posted a comment. By using this setting, I could go on about my business, safe in the knowledge that I would receive an email alerting me of a new comment that needed approval whenever one was received. Then I realized that it simply meant that I was checking my mail every two minutes to see if I had gotten an alert letting me know of a comment, so I stopped. I am sure that people who engage in this practice have their own reasons. Perhaps their mother reads their blog, an...