COMMENTING RULES
We encourage our readers to share their opinions about our news articles. We believe that our community becomes stronger when people engage one another in honest, respectful, and informed conversation. At the same time, we insist on a civil exchange of ideas on our pages. So that we’re clear, we will not allow:
- Personal attacks on fellow readers and contributors
- Threats, ins
ults, gaslighting, or harassment of individuals or organizations
- Spreading disinformation, and false and misleading statements
- Statements that are vulgar or obscene, defamatory, racist, bigoted, sexist, disgraceful, or inappropriate, even if it’s obscured with dashes and other forms of punctuation
- SHOUTING
- Hate and divisive speech and statements that incite violence
- Contributors who hijack conversations, misrepresent themselves, or promote commercial products and services
- Off-topic content
Our community benefits when we engage in constructive conversations about the issues we face. But if you cannot honor the letter and spirit of these rules, we’ll continue the discussion without you. PLEASE NOTE: At any time and at our sole discretion we reserve the right to disallow any comment that does not conform to these rules, and we also reserve the right to suspend comments on any article that receives a high volume of offensive or inappropriate comments.
