We moderate comments. Our purpose is to provide substantive comments to a general audience. By filtering submissions, we provide an area where readers can express intelligent and informed feedback on the quality of our news and information.
While the maximum comments will be published if they are on the subject and not abusive, moderation decisions are topical. We will do them in the most conscious and systematic way possible. Due to the volume of reader feedback, we review individual moderation decisions with readers.
We appreciate the comments considered to represent a diversity of views that express your point of view on a temporary and courteous basis. We make each and every effort for discussions based on repeated comments from the same reader or other readers.
We meet the same taste criteria as life. Some things we won’t tolerate: non-public attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanities (including swearing and scripted letters), advertising promotion, identity theft, inconsistency, proselytizing and CRIER. Do not include website URLs.
We do not replace comments. They are approved or deleted. We reserve the right to edit a comment quoted or extracted from an article. In this case, we can correctly type spelling and punctuation.
We welcome strong comments and criticisms of our work, however, we need feedback to get bogged down in discussions about our policies and moderate accordingly.