Freedom of Speech on the New Energy Times Blog
(May 17, 2011)
Thank you for contributing your thoughtful comments and questions to the New Energy Times blog! Here are some guidelines to help you enjoy an maximize your experience here.
1. We (and the rest of our readers) appreciate your insightful comments and questions. If, in our opinion, your comment does not make a significant contribution to the topic, (Example: A comment that contains only “Thanks for the great Web site.”) we will reject it, and we will probably not notify you.
2. On our site, you have no freedom of speech. If you want freedom of speech, you are free to publish your own blog.
3. If you disagree with what someone said, attack the statement, not the person.
4. Make your best effort to be accurate. If, in our opinion, your comment has numerous inaccuracies, we will probably reject it.
5. On our blog, please be polite. Communicate to other people with the same respect and dignity as you would at a scientific conference or in a journal.
6. We reserve the right to perform minor edits to your comment to improve clarity or civility.
7. If, in our opinion, your comment is predominately a flame, rant or vent, we will reject it, and you will not be notified.
8. If, in our opinion, your comment is predominately irrelevant to the subject, we will reject it, and we will probably not notify you.
9. If, in our opinion, your comment is predominately defamatory or potentially libelous, we will reject it, and you will not be notified.
10. If, in our opinion, your comment is partially defamatory or potentially libelous, we may edit your comment without notifying you and then allow it.
11. Do not cross-post identical or nearly identical comments into multiple threads. If you do so, we will allow the first one we see and delete the others.
12. We welcome useful hyperlinks. However, please don’t post a comment here that is incomplete without a hyperlink to a comment you’ve made on another Web site. Your comments here should stand on their own.
13. Please don’t clog up the comments with continuous back-and-forth arguments. We may reject these type of flame wars at any moment without notice.
14. We request you submit your comments in English.
15. If you want to write hateful comments and express your rage, please find another place to do that; the Internet provides many such opportunities. Vortex-L is a great place for that.
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