Personal Finance Analyst Guideline for Posting Comments

We welcome your comments and ideas and look forward to hearing from you. In the interest of maintaining order and not getting sued and so forth, we ask that you consider the following guidelines before you post your comments:

- No Foul or Offensive Language. This includes swearing, racial and religious slurs, graphically violent or sexual language, and so forth. Strong opinions are fine; profanity, hate, and porn are not. A good rule of thumb is; if you think it might cross a line, it probably does. Comments that contain profanity, pornography, or hate speech will be deleted.

- No Personal Attacks, No Flaming. Take a walk, practice some deep breathing; then come back and post what’s on your mind. Flamers will be deleted.

- No Spam. Usually people don’t spam, but if you do feel the need to spam for some weird reason, squelch it. Spam will be deleted.

- No Purely Self-Promotional Comments. Do enter your blog or website in the form provided with the comment template so readers can trackback to your personal territory. Do not embed your own link in your comment and then talk only about how great your own site is. Technically, that’s human spam. We’ll delete those comments.

- No Plagiarized or Copyrighted Material. Please don’t post other people’s material or anything that will get us sued.

- No Huge Signatures of Sparkling Fairies and So Forth. Please, this is a financial blog. Take your blue dolphin jumping over the rainbow .gif someplace else, OK?

In addition to all the standard ‘don’ts’ please keep the following ‘dos’ in mind when commenting at Personal Finance Analyst.

- Do Participate! We want to hear from you! We want a trackback to your own site. We want your ideas and your personal wisdom and experiences. We care about what you think. If you are lurking, please dive in. We want that.

- Do Be Respectful of Others. This is America. This place was more or less invented so that people wouldn’t have to be on the same page. So do be tolerant of others and when strongly disagreeing, please use ‘I’ instead of ‘you’ statements. This is more a suggestion, not a rule. It just helps maintain good dialog. “I am so angry about XYZ,” is so much more palatable than “Boy you must be a moron if you are not angry about XYZ.” Feel the difference?

- Do Keep Your Comment Concise. Two hundred words is really pushing the envelope for a comment. If you have more to say than that, consider writing a blog on the topic at your own site and leaving a briefer comment with a trackback to your blog instead.

- Do Come Back. People here will just plain miss you if you never come back. Please come back, seriously. Don’t just comment and run. Call us in the morning, will you?

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