Andrew Hagen

Unfortunately, this site has been the repeated target of spammers. Search engines routinely index this site. The only way to deny spammers a reward in the form of search engine listings is to prevent all spam from being posted. The only way to do that is to moderate all comments.

Hence, all comments are now moderated. New comments will not appear until I approve them. I promise that I will allow any comment to be posted so long as it doesn’t violate common sense rules.

Spam and unsolicited commercial content are not allowed. Political spam is not allowed. Commercial enterprises and products and political candidates can certainly be mentioned if the mention is made in good faith. Comments that are illegal or defamatory are not allowed. As this is an American web site, the applicable law is that of the USA. The laws of other nations are without effect here. Comments that are personally abusive and profane are not allowed. Comments must be generally relevant to the topic at hand.

Unlike some other web sites, I do not censor opposing views.

As I have suffered the sting and the lash of Internet censorship in the guise of “moderation” many times, I promise to be as liberal as possible in allowing comments.

It might take a day or possibly a few days for a comment to go through moderation and appear on the site as I might be away from an Internet connection.

No other statement by me written, electronic, oral, or otherwise supersedes this paragraph. This policy and all of the promises within it are not intended to be a legal contract, but only a set of guidelines. I retain complete discretion over how to run this site. AH

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