Commenting Guidelines

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– Spam posting; i.e., post deliberately designed to disrupt the website and its basic ability to function. These are posts that are deemed to be devoid of content or analysis and appear to be published with the sole purpose of disruption.
– Posts the author has requested hidden.
– Posts that are obviously incorrect or misleading. This includes attempts to spread dis-information or to impersonate another individual.
– Posts that contain generalized and negative assertions about any race, nation, creed, class, ethnic group, sexual orientation, etc.
– Posts that treat the website as a personal bulletin board with irrelevant content directed at one or another of The Panelist’s participants.
– Unreadable formats (i.e. photos posted as text)
– Posts titled "test."
– Duplicate posts (including duplicate photographs)
– Advertising of products or for-profit services.
– Pornography, excepting sexually explicit satire.

The Panelist’s definition of Unacceptable Content is not limited to this list. Use obscenity and profanity at your own risk. The Panelist reserves the right to remove content or links to any content at any time. We prefer that profane language or language that, although not offensive to the author, potentially offensive to some be disguised (for example: "sh*t").