Comments Policy

Due to a few individuals who cannot restrain themselves when commenting I have thought out and constructed a comments policy which is very much based on those to be found on other blogs. I will add here that the regular commenters on this blog can feel free to ignore this as they are a good bunch and would not transgress these rules - I hope!

If you leave insulting, abusive, vulgar, rude, racist, bigoted or vindictive comments make no mistake your comments will be deleted. I treat everyone with respect; that is until respect for me is cast aside. This is my space and if you can’t respect that then I don’t want to hear what you have to say.

Read the posts! Not only read, but be sure that you understand what I am saying before you comment. Picking a sentence at random and commenting on it totally out of context is not acceptable to me, and any comment that does this will be deleted.

Stick to the point of the post. Any comments that are not relevant will be deleted, that is unless there is a degree of humour, or I can see some point to the comment.

The “anonymous” comment has been tested to the limit, and whilst I appreciate that all anonymous comments are not negative, a great deal have been; such comments will be deleted. I would much rather that you gave me a name to deal with, even a pseudonym is better than nothing; it also makes it easier to refer back to a comment.

If you want argue with me that’s fine, just be sure that you can back up your argument; the “I’m right and you’re wrong” type of argument just won’t wash with me, and it is a sure way of ensuring that you lose the argument, and make yourself look stupid into the bargain. But you must also be aware that I have the option to simply ignore you and not respond, and if you bore me then I will use that option.

I have been accused of censorship in the past because I deleted comments that were abusive and insulting. I believe in the freedom of speech, but not to the extent that you can come into my space and rant and rave in an abusive insulting manner; so if you find your comments deleted you can’t say that you weren’t warned.

Just one further point which is relevant now that the blog has been moved to WordPress, if you do not provide a valid email address your comment will also be deleted. If, for example, you provide rubbish like this:-

E-mail : dandy@abc.com

URI : http://www.abc.com

Your comment will almost certainly be edited to inform people that the content has been deleted!