My fair, but unforgiving, comment policy

Your comments are very welcome on Sciencetext. Indeed, they are positively encouraged as your feedback helps to encourage me to keep providing the tech talk content. So, please do participate in the discussion. If there isn’t an ongoing discussion on a particular post, please don’t be put off by the apparent silence, I’ll be listening and if you have something to say, just say it.

I ask that you remember that the site is public, it’s not a private forum, children are often present as are sensitive souls who are easily offended by expletives and coarse language, so please keep it clean and treat other commenters and authors with respect. That way we’ll all get along very well.

My take on the blog commenting system comes straight from the journalism school of thought and so comments are moderated and the decision to publish any particular comment is based on the notion of the newspaper “letters to the editor” concept. The Sciencetext comment policy is I hope fair but unforgiving of abuse:

• Your interesting comments are approved ASAP.
• Comments should be more than a single word.
• Offensive, rude or unhelpful comments are usually deleted.
• Extreme grammar and spelling issues will be corrected.
• General comments are for the guestbook
• Interesting but misplaced comments are relocated.
• Sciencetext is rel=nofollow; spam = FAIL.
• Spammy names are edited on otherwise worthy comments.
• Spam is blacklisted and IP addresses reported to Akismet with no appeal.

I will, of course, be pleased to receive comments on this comment policy and if you think anything is particularly unfair or silly then I will amend it. But, you’ll have to leave a comment to tell me so…