Consider me swayed by the breeze of participatory democracy.

I’m hardly expecting a flood, but I figure it better to lay out some guidelines at the beginning:

1/ My general policy for now is that comments are welcome as long as they aren’t dumb or offensive. They’re especially welcome if they’re not boring.

2/ I will be the sole and final arbiter of what counts as dumb and offensive. You get to decide what’s boring.

3/ I will not modify comments without the permission of the comment’s author…

4/ …but I may delete a comment at any time for any reason. That means that a comment may be deleted even if it doesn’t fall into the dumb and offensive clause of guideline 1.

5/ A person who submits many (i.e. more than two) dumb or offensive comments may be permanently blacklisted.

6/ I may shut down the comments on the site at any time for any reason. This may include past comments. If you leave a comment that you are especially fond of, be sure to make a local copy for yourself.

7/ These policies may change at any time. For the latest version, click the link below the comment form on any single-post page.