Saturday, October 4, 2008

Our new comments policy (updated)

Update (June 9, 2010): Our comments policy has been modified in order to bring you, our readers, fair and relevant comments. Here are the new guidelines:
Any and all comments that are:
  1. Explicitly racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, and/or discriminatory;
  2. Personal attacks/and or insults against blog readers, contributors, and/or commenters;
  3. Spam and/or advertisements disguised as comments;
  4. Violating copyright law;
  5. Irrelevant to the topics discussed in a post;
will be immediately deleted from this blog.

Repeat offenders of The Latin Americanist's comments policy will be banned at the discretion of the blog administrator(s).
Update: Our new comments policy is as follows:
Any and all comments that are:
  1. Explicitly racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, and/or discriminatory;
  2. Personal attacks against blog readers, contributors, and/or commenters;
  3. Spam and/or advertisements disguised as comments;
  4. Violating copyright law;
will be immediately deleted from this blog.
Original Post: The motto of this blog since its inception has been to act as an “English-language forum for all things Latin American”. As such we try our best to provide a platform where all sort of ideas and opinions can be freely discussed and disseminated.

Earlier tonight an anonymous individual left a particularly heinous and vulgar rant against one of our contributors. While most comments are courteous and on the topic, the disgusting comment we read has forced us to institute a new comments policy.

The following policy goes into effect immediately and will be posted on the sidebar starting on Monday:
Comment Policy

Any and all comments that are:
  1. Directly racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, and/or discriminatory
  2. Personal attacks against blog readers, contributors, and/or commenters
  3. Spam and/or advertisements disguised as comments
will be immediately deleted from this blog.
We always appreciate your readership and hope that this new policy will not discourage you from participating on this blog.

Please e-mail us at ourltinamerica@yahoo.com should you have any questions or concerns on the comments policy or any other aspect of our blog.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Update: Thanks to your feedback supporting our blog as well as providing suggestions to the comments guidelines. We will modify the policy slightly and then post it on the sidebar on Monday.

Thanks again!

4 comments:

boz said...

It's a reasonable policy. You might want to add a point #4: Comments that violate copyright law. I've found that to be an issue at times when people have tried to cut and paste full articles into the comment section.

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