Top Ten Ways Not To Get Your Comments Published
As many of our readers know, comments on this blog are screened (moderated). Some of you who have tried to comment have complained that although we have published other people's comments, we have not published yours. We hope that the following may give you some insight about why your comments may not have made it into print. Starting with number ten, your comments will not be published if in them you:
10. Threaten anyone with physical injury.
9. Use what we judge to be nasty language or swear words directed personally to someone in your comment.
8. Are dull, boring, uninteresting, or have nothing to say.
7. Make a comment that has nothing to do with the article you are supposedly commenting about.
6. Have little else to say except to try to insult the blogger or another poster.
5. Engage in name-calling, instead of addressing an argument on its merits.
4. Try to post to an article that is more than a week old. Unless the thread of the article is an on-going series, your comment may be viewed by the editors as old news.
3. Make the same type of comment over and over again.
2. Use an incorrect name or initials when referring to a person in your comment.
1. Refer to the blogger by a presumed name or initials in your post.
10. Threaten anyone with physical injury.
9. Use what we judge to be nasty language or swear words directed personally to someone in your comment.
8. Are dull, boring, uninteresting, or have nothing to say.
7. Make a comment that has nothing to do with the article you are supposedly commenting about.
6. Have little else to say except to try to insult the blogger or another poster.
5. Engage in name-calling, instead of addressing an argument on its merits.
4. Try to post to an article that is more than a week old. Unless the thread of the article is an on-going series, your comment may be viewed by the editors as old news.
3. Make the same type of comment over and over again.
2. Use an incorrect name or initials when referring to a person in your comment.
1. Refer to the blogger by a presumed name or initials in your post.
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posted by Conchette at 11:06 AM
3 Comments:
By the way it is quite interesting to see how you constantly change your rules to fit the circumstances. Pretty slimey don't you think? Maybe you should ask to write for the blue paper. Birds of a feather...
On the contrary, our publishing guidelines have been very consistent. If what a poster has to say meets our publication guidelines, chances are it will get published. If not, it won't.
As far as writing for the "blue paper" as you call it -- it does have a name -- we have all we can do to write this blog and work on our other writing projects.
Speaking of the "blue paper", is there any further info about Tom Tukey's alleged prostitution bust?
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