POSTED BY Intern ON 7:38 pm, March 17, 2007 - POSTED IN
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Appended – 10/15/2007
Let’s make it clear: Liability for all comments rests with the commentator; nonetheless, the site reserves the right to remove comments that are non-germane, redundant, malicious, unfunny, or otherwise lame, as determined by site’s staff. Wholesale removal of some comments on any grounds shall not make the site liable for the content of other, posted comments.
Appended – 03/13/2008
Report comments! Due to the inability of a select few of our commenters to restrain themselves from barraging the threads with vitriol and troll droppings, we have instituted a “report comments” feature (read: report comments plugin) that will allow the community to police itself. If you, our trusted and loyal reader feel offended by a nasty comment, click on the “[report comment]” link and send us a note. We’ll take a look, and if we agree, then we’ll take the comment down.
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Adapted from Lauren Wood’s comment policy.
