House rules

Argue with the story, argue with our take, argue with each other. Being wrong is allowed. Being rude about an argument is allowed. Disagreeing with the site is very much allowed — a comment section that only agrees with the front page is a waste of everyone’s afternoon.

What gets removed

Threats. Targeted harassment of a person, commenter or subject. Posting somebody’s private information. Spam and affiliate links. Anything illegal to host.

That is the list. There is no rule against profanity, no rule against sarcasm, and no rule against calling a bad take a bad take.

Who does the removing

One person, occasionally, when something is reported. This is not a moderated forum with a team behind it, so the honest answer is that bad comments sometimes sit there for a while. Report them and they get looked at.

Comments belong to whoever wrote them

We don’t claim them, sell them, or feed them to anything. Disqus holds the accounts and the data — their privacy policy governs that part, not ours, and it is worth reading if you care. Nothing you write here is used to generate anything on the site.

Blocked comments are not a conspiracy

Disqus is a third-party script, so ad and tracker blockers hide it constantly. If the section never loads, that is almost always your extension rather than us removing a thread.