General:

I am very generous in the types of comments I will allow. I reserve the right to delete comments that are inappropriate, offensive, or obvious comment spam. Comments, in the context of this policy, include pingbacks and trackbacks.

Do not link to commercial gambling or pornographic websites. I will delete comments that link to them as soon as I discover them. If your website includes adult images of any kind, please label your comments with a warning such as "not safe for work", although it is not required for you to do so.

Do not link to spam blogs (splogs). They are easily identifiable and comments that link to them will be deleted.

This blog is written for adults. While I have no problem with comments from younger people, I will delete obvious childish comments.

One or more filters are in place to prevent comment spam. If a comment containing spam slips through, it will be deleted as soon as I discover it.

I do not moderate comments except as I stated above. I will eventually view all comments and will delete comments as necessary.

You retain ownership of your comments. You grant me the limited right to publish them on this blog (as the current comment or in an article). Comments will never be used out of context and will not be used as testimonials for products or services without express permission.

I reserve the right to contact you via email regarding any comment you make.

Purchased Comments:

At present, there is at least one company that sells a service to have people post comments on blogs. If I discover it happening on my blog, I will remove the "dofollow" plugin (where the links are indexed by search engines) and make the links in the comment headers useless. If I can ascertain identity of the service involved and the service is based in the United States, I will report the incident(s) to the Better Business Bureau (BBB), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In other words, I will create as many problems for these types of services that I can.

While I am a strong proponent of the "dofollow" movement, there are other ways to provide good links to valid commenters and I will not hesitate to revert links back to "nofollow' and use another method when the situation warrants it.

This policy is effective on 2008-03-17.