Unfortunately, this blog seems to attract lots of comment spam.  I am less interested in racking up huge numbers of comments than I am in keeping the discussion for actual discussion (shock, horror).  As a result, I’ve had to include plugins to screen many comments, and ask you to bear with me in typing in a few extra characters to keep this blog spam-free.  I’ve also chosen to adopt the following policy:

What will be marked as ‘spam’ and will get you blacklisted:

  1. Comments using brand names or keyword phrases under ‘Name’ will not be approved – if you want backlinks, please do the right thing and contact me directly, although I generally don’t link to anything that’s not valuable and related content. I definitely won’t be allowing comment links to anything commercial.
  2. Comments which have links to anything will be held for moderation.  Unless the links are related to the post they are commenting on, they will generally not be approved. Again, if they’re commercial links, they also probably won’t be approved.
  3. Comments with x rated terms or adult topics, including gambling.  This is intended for a general G-rated audience.  Anything that doesn’t fit within that won’t get approved.

What is welcome in commenting:

  1. Actual discussion.  Humans are more than welcome here, and these policies are designed to keep it bot-free so we can actually discuss the posts.  Your thoughts don’t have to be the same as mine – you’re welcome to disagree with me, just please say why so other readers can evaluate your logic for themselves.

One last note:

This blog is not a source of income for me, except for the occasional bit of google adsense or affiliate ad in the sidebars.  As such, I have to sell most of my week to an employer, and throw more of it away in travelling to and from.  Sadly, this means it may take a while to moderate your comment.  I’ll do my best, but if you don’t hear from me within a week or two (sometimes things get busy), please post again – it might have been caught up in one of the plugins I’ve had to install.  Otherwise, I appreciate your patience.