Last update: August 11th 2009.
I hate deleting comments. I believe in letting everyone have their say, even if it gets ugly and uncomfortable. But I have learned the hard way that I do have to set some guidelines.
I reserve the right to delete comments that:
- Are way off topic.
- Sell something.
- Use bad language.
- Call names or put down other commenters, like by questioning their age, education or intelligence.
- Are not in English.
- Are plagiarized.
If you keep posting comments that I have to delete, I will mark you as a source of spam.
Your comment will thrown to moderation if you use three or more links or one of these bad words:
cock, cracker, cunt, dick, fuck, gook, kaffir, motherfucker, nazi, nigger, piss, pussy, shit, spic, tits, whitey.
It will take anywhere from a few minutes to 24 hours to appear, assuming I approve it.
If I see two comments in a row that seem almost the same, then I will assume the second one is a correction and delete the first one.
I sometimes edit comments for readability, like using paragraphs and correct spelling, but I do not shorten them or take anything out.
I do not want to punish or limit ideas. These rules do not punish ideas but certain ways of expressing them. In my experience those who express their ideas in these ways are not all that serious to begin with – they are just using comments as a way of making themselves feel good by showing off or cutting down others.
If you have questions or suggestions about my comment policy, then please comment below or contact me.
I agree no one wants to limit free speech. The thing that I am finding annoying is that people who don’t really have good arguments just keep repeating the same thing over and over and over again in hopes of wearing the other side down. Most of the time, repeating the same false statements or at least unverifable opinions again and again. Then when the other side ceases the discussion, they can count that as “winning” the debate.
Unfortunately, that is happening here in a few of the more popular threads.
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Excellent point. I noticed the same thing at the Wikipedia: the ones who won the edit wars were those who apparently do not have families to feed but could spend huge amounts of time working on the Wikipedia for free.
I ran into the same here with Mike on “Why so few white men marry black women”: Most of what he said was laughable but I did not have time to counter each of his points. So he thought he “won”.
Can you (or anyone else) think of a way to prevent that with a clear-cut rule?
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i think your name calling rule works well.
anyone willing to go to that level will break all your other rules and really dont add to the conversation at all.
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Ya gotta do what ya gotte do. I agree with this post wholely.
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That guy, “Mike,” on that BW/WM thread, I could never understand what he was saying. He’s really inarticulate.
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I’m pretty sure that Mike is very young & inexperienced. At least that would explain his comments.
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again i’m having some comments not showing up!!! seems to be when i’m on my hotspot from the phone??? metropcs
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