Commenting Policy

Our blog, our rules.

There. that should be simple enough. For those who need it spelled out:

Newshoggers isn't run for money, it's a private site rather than a government one, and we regard it as our home. Newshoggers is not a neutral site. It is intended to express and disseminate the authors’ point of view. We reserve the right to limit comments to those that, in our view, comport with its stated comment policy. Comments that do not comply are subject to deletion and banning of the author’s ISP.

When we can come round your house and hold a party in your living room with our (select whichever minority you would find most offensive) friends and drink all your booze - then you can camp on our blog and troll.

In particular, we will not allow name-calling, personal attacks, racist comments, religious bigotry or the use of obscenity by any commenter, whether they are by persons who agree or disagree with the views expressed by Newshoggers.

Nor will we allow commenters to hijack a comments thread just to advertise their book/product/for-profit website etc. Pushing your own God/Goddess/Flying Spaghetti Monster at the expense of all others is also advertising in our view. If you want to advertise, offer to pay us.

We therefore reserve the right to delete or edit comments and to ban any offender's ISP address, without notice and without need for explanation.

Play nice.

Disclaimer:

Reading and posting comments at Newshoggers constitutes acknowledgment of and agreement to the terms outlined in this comment policy. This comment policy may be revised in part or in full at any time

All comments must comport with applicable state and federal laws. Newshoggers has no obligation to monitor, edit, censor, or take responsibility for comments. It may or may not act upon a violation of its comment policy once a suspected violation has been brought to its attention. Therefore, commenters are solely responsible for the content of their comments and should ensure that that their comments are lawful and fall within the stated guidelines of both Newshoggers and its hosting company.

Newshoggers is not be responsible for injury or liability to any reader or commenter resulting from its own communications or those of commenters, that may be offensive, misleading, inaccurate, illegal, or otherwise unsuitable in the view of the reader. Readers and commenters further agree to indemnify and hold harmless Newshoggers and its authors from claims resulting from the use of any material appearing on Newshoggers which damages the reader, commenter or any other party.

Newshoggers is not responsible for and might disagree with material posted in the comments section. This is an opinion site. The material posted by Newshoggers or left in the comments section may or may not be accurate.

Read and Post at your own risk.