A simple guide to posting comments at J$P.

We welcome all points of view at J$P, but unlike some sites (coughnewshoundscough), we don't permit people to greet those who disagree with personal attacks, name-calling, or profanity. So if you want to avoid having your comments edited or deleted, or getting yourself banned completely for up to a year (until our annual bamnesty), please follow these simple guidelines:

No profanity. We are a family-friendly resource, and there is no reason to resort to foul language, regardless of how badly your arguments have been shredded.

No personal attacks. If you want to call names, you know where you will be welcomed. But here, please conduct all discussions with at least a modicum of intelligence and respectability. Personal attacks on other posters will not be tolerated. This goes double for personal attacks on us.

No lengthy cut and paste. A line or two might be OK, but if you want to draw attention to somebody else's opinion, provide a link.

No off-topic ramblings. If you think a comments thread is meant to be a free-for-all smorgasbord for anything that comes into your head, you are in the wrong place. Try to maintain a least a tenuous connection to the subject matter at hand.

No abuse. Posting the same message over and over, especially in multiple off-topic threads, is not a good way to ingratiate yourself. We've only had to ban one individual, and it was for this type of abuse.

No juvenilia. We've had our fill of the insipid FNC insult phrases that pervade the cybersphere, and they will not be permitted here. These include, but are not limited to, such knee-slappers as "Faux News", "O'Lielly", "David Ass-Man", and the like.

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