Comments Policy

People are free to rant and rave here as much as they like, including the use of whatever vulgar and foul language takes their fancy.  They can make sweeping generalisations, pass offensive remarks and fling derogatory comments of any kind whatsoever.  After all, I’d be a bit of a hypocrite if I objected to that.  However, people need to remember that this is my site, not theirs, and there is no absolute right to free speech here.  If I don’t like what you’re saying, I’ll delete it, and I won’t explain why.

Any comments I think are libellous will be taken down immediately. Any prejudicial comments about a current court case will be taken down.  Any comments advocating commission of a crime will be removed. Racist comments will be deleted.

I don’t mind how strongly anyone attacks my opinions, but I will not stand for personal abuse. I wouldn’t put up with somebody shouting into my face and I won’t tolerate it here.  Robust argument is welcome, but anyone who forgets their manners, and directs personal abuse at me, or at other commenters, will be banned.

If somebody deliberately writes comments under more than one name, I have to judge whether it’s due to inexperience, ignorance of the etiquette or downright trolling. Anyone who tries to use multiple names to escape my attention will be banned if I think they should be, because that sort of thing is sneaky and pisses me off.

If I think somebody is doing it to start fights, I’ll blacklist them and they won’t be able to comment again.

Nobody has the right to use this site as a platform to shout at me or others, and I’ll make no apology or explanation for telling them to fuck right off.

I’ve decided to stop accepting anonymous comments.

Oh, and one other thing.  I hate bad spelling and grammar. Therefore, I reserve the right to correct the spelling and grammar in your comments.  If you deliberately misspelled something, or expressed it ungrammatically for a particular purpose, let me know and I’ll change it back.  I particularly detest txt spk, and, depending on how bad my mood is, I might just delete it without further ado, or I might ask you not to use it in future.  That depends on the severity of my hangover, but you should just assume that txt spk is not tolerated here.

In a similar vein, please don’t SHOUT WHEN YOU LEAVE A COMMENT. It makes your post hard to read and it gets on my nerves. I’ll edit your post to remove capitals, or I’ll delete it, depending on how bad my mood is.  And please don’t use multiple exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!! or loads of question marks.  OK???????????? They’re annoying and I’ll delete them.

Oh, and one final thing. Some commenters are miserable, negative, depressing bastards, and others are just plain annoying. I reserve the right to ban both kinds on the grounds that they piss me off.

You know what’s great about paying for your own site? It’s this: you don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. If I don’t want stupid, miserable, depressing, annoying bastards leaving comments on my site, I just ban them.

Isn’t that great? God, I love oppressing idiots.