{"id":731,"date":"2007-03-05T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/rules\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T21:08:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:08:01","slug":"rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/rules","title":{"rendered":"Rules for comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feedback and discussion is welcome but it has become necessary to set down some guidelines on how comments will be handled. My objective is for this site to be a place for open discussion about the technology issues on which I blog but please remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep it on topic.<\/li>\n<li>Keep it respectful.<\/li>\n<li>Keep it fun.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t offer support to everybody on the Internet and although I&#8217;ll help if I can, I have a day job too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things that will lead to comments being edited\/deleted include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offensive or abusive language or behaviour (if you feel that your point requires the use of strong language, you may use asterisks to mask your f***ing language, but no flaming &#8211; personal attacks against me, my family, my friends, or other commenters are forbidden).<\/li>\n<li>Misrepresentation (i.e. claiming to be somebody you&#8217;re not) &#8211; if you don&#8217;t want to use your real name, that&#8217;s fine, as long as your &#8220;handle&#8221; isn&#8217;t offensive, abusive, or misrepresentative.<\/li>\n<li>Anything illegal.<\/li>\n<li>Blog-spam of any kind (even if your comment is relevant, I reserve the right to remove any link to your site if I consider it to be blog spam).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope these rules will keep the discussion lively and on topic.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, please note that comments are owned by the person who posted them and I am not responsible for their content.\u00a0In addition, if you leave a comment for search engine optimisation (SEO) purposes and then later decide it should be removed, I reserve the right to charge for my time, removing such links only after payment has been received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feedback and discussion is welcome but it has become necessary to set down some guidelines on how comments will be handled. My objective is for this site to be a place for open discussion about the technology issues on which I blog but please remember: Keep it on topic. Keep it respectful. Keep it fun. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/rules\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rules for comments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":721,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-731","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rules for comments - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/rules\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rules for comments - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Feedback and discussion is welcome but it has become necessary to set down some guidelines on how comments will be handled. 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