Simple Commenting Practices at Angry Bear

Commenting Information & Practices

1. We do not see every comment made on every post. We are also not at Angry Bear all the time.
2. Notify us about offensive, discriminatory, etc. comments. Dan, Eric or myself will review them and take action if needed. Understand, we do not see everything.
3. Confine your actions to reporting. Try not to answer someone who is making offensive, discriminatory, etc. comments as it may encourage them.
4. Becoming indignant with us for offensive, discriminatory, etc. comments does not make the comment go away.
5. Making an offensive, discriminatory, etc. comments will likely result in a comment ending up in the trash “initially.”
6. If a commenter persists in bad commenting practices, the commenter will end up in “spam” and banned.
7. To my knowledge, Authors can see the comments to their posts.
8. To my knowledge, authors do have the ability to trash a comment.

Commenting to Posts

1. Stay on topic to a Post. Off-topic comments can be deleted.
2. Each week, Dan puts up an Open Thread. Off-topic comments or subjects can be posted to the Open Thread. The rules are the same for offensive, discriminatory, etc. comments on the Open Thread.
3. If you disagree with the author on the a post subject, you need to post your own references to support your point.
4. Picking a fight with the author of a comment is not going to help you make your point.

I believe just about everyone understands this. It is no different elsewhere.