Comments Policy

Each article/post submitted on James' Blog has the option to post a comment at the end of the article or post. This is a feature built into WordPress (The Content Management System powering James' Blog) but is carefully neutralised by myself to ensure proper use. Comments are moderated both automatically and by human elements to ensure, spam comments never reach there destination and your voice and opinion gets a shine in the spotlight. Commenting on articles and posts is something I encourage but there are certain guidelines that I wish for anyone commenting to follow. Nothing restricting or controlling, just some basic guidelines.

Your privacy and comments

The comment feature is encouraged throughout any article/post on James' Blog, while anyone can comment you are not forced to do so, this would be wrong and unfair therefore you are able to read any content on James' Blog without having to comment, you can read and close if you like.

If you do comment on one or more articles/posts your privacy remains the same as if you hadn't commented at all. You are not obligated to register an account in any way, the way things are run at James' Blog you can simply post as a unregistered member but still have the ability to have a unique name. When commenting you are required to fill in a couple of fields, these include Name, Email, Website URL and the comment itself.

The name field of a comment is simply a unique ID of someone. This name does not have to represent anything about yourself, it can be a screen name or anything that you want it to be, you are free to choose what it is.

The website url field is optional, if a person that comments also owns a website domain they can input the full URL into the field, this will (When comment is posted) make whatever was inputted into the name field by hyperlinked with the website URL given.

The email field is where you have to put in a valid email address otherwise you will not be able to submit a comment, while a email address is personal this is never displayed publicly. In fact only a adminstrator with the correct permission rights can view the email address that is linked with a comment.

The comment field is where you have your say on what has been posted. There are no character limits to what you can type so you have unlimited key strokes!

Data such as IP/Email addresses are collected, but are no way used or displayed anywhere else, this information is collected by the engine that powers the entire website which is WordPress. The data that is collected is simply for administrator viewing only, it is never displayed publicly.

Here's some things you shouldn't be doing when commenting on any article/post

1. Do not make a spam comment. This includes spamming multiple website links in a comment and also spamming random bits of text that aren't generic and don't make any sense to a human being. Any form of spam comment instantly gets caught and held in the spam comment section, so it never gets past the spam check. But sure you try you won't get far though!

2. Making any Racist/Discriminatory remark isn't acceptable and your comment will instantly be removed if you do this. Zero tolerance.

3. Excessively swearing isn't exactly great either. I mean ok, we all use the common swear words and occassionally I have put in the f word in some of my articles/posts but excessively swearing is taking it a bit too far, and if you just swear blindly in a comment it will be removed.

4. Try not to go off topic, it happens more in forums but sometimes it can happen in comments as well. If your commenting make sure you on the topic of the post/article you are commenting on.

I would like to point out that, your comment can be removed at anytime without warning if it deemed to violate any of the guidelines stated here, if you included a valid email address, you will automatically be notified that your comment was removed and the reason why it was.