ande macpherson

I welcome comments on the posts & other comments on this blog. But I thought it worth some guidelines:

• I will decline to publish unacceptable content. I will define what is unacceptable content.
  
  • Taboo words do not define unacceptable content.
  • Meaning defines unacceptable content. Bigotry does. Unacceptable content may include sexist, racist, classist, ableist, homophobic, and transphobic speech as well as a variety of other -isms and -phobias.
  • Trolling and concern trolling are unacceptable.
    A concern troll is “a person who posts on a site or blog pretending to be in sympathy with their overall views or politics, who posts mainly to express concern for policies, comments, attitudes of others on the site”. Concern trolls come across as insincere, manipulative, and condescending.
    • Examples of concern trolling might include, “I love the ideas, but you’re making other marketers look bad.” “You have to be more polite, or other you’ll never make any converts”. “Do you think your could modify your tone?”
      
• Nobody is obliged to listen to you if you are being a jerk.
  • Don’t threadjack, morph, sockpuppet, wank, threaten, or be repetitive and insipid.
    
  • Don’t dominate: allow space for other voices to be heard (i.e. avoid excessively frequent and/or long comments)
• Take moderation discussions to email.
  
• Violations of this policy may be disemvowelled, mocked, edited, or summarily deleted.
• While amusement value may atone for a multitude of minor sins, we expect those who transgress too far to have the grace to apologise.

Thanks to Hoyden About Town for helping inspire the policy.

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