Comments policy
Comments Policy
We’re here to promote a smart on-topic community of commenters. We’re not keen on anyone creating a hostile environment that discourages others from joining the conversation. We will shortly be adding new features to the site that will allow commenters to build up a reputation for high-quality on-topic comments. If we think that you’re straying from the standards that we set here, we may delete comments and give you a warning. Repeat warnings will lead to a ban at our discretion
Try and stick to these rules
- Stay on the subject. Try not to go off topic in a comment thread. If you do, and it annoys us, we’ll delete / ban. Spam will be deleted on sight. Spammers will be banned.
- Be nice. Don’t make personal attacks on other commenters, Slugger’s bloggers or the subjects of posts on the site. By all means challenge the things people say or do, but don’t be personal and keep it civil. Play the ball and not the (wo)man. We occasionally hear from readers who say that they’re reluctant to comment because they are worried that their views will not be responded to in good faith. We’d like to hear less of this in future.
- We’d prefer you to register with the site. Usually, we’ll allow you to post anonymously or using an ad-hoc name, but at other times (depending on our capacity to moderate the comments, or at times when controversial issues are being discussed) we will only allow logged-in comment. We may even occassionally ‘pre-moderate’ comments though at the moment, it is our policy to avoid doing this.
If you break these rules, aside from our yellow / red card system….
- we may remove your comments.
- in extreme cases, we may contact your Internet Service Provider or pass on your details to the appropriate legal authorities
We reserve the right to change these policies without notice.
Last modified 23 November 2010
