Comments & editorial policy

I won't remove comments from this blog that are mostly on-topic, interesting, make a good point or make me laugh. In fact, I delete very, very few comments.

As a guideline, however:

I will close and/or delete comments on a post when comments are simply threats or insults or have gone so wildly off-topic that a new post would serve the debate better.
Anonymous comments are permitted, but I'd rather you left a name and email address (particularly if you have something interesting to say).
Measures such as IP bans etc can be used as a last resort.

Essentially, if your comment is deleted, it is because you are considered to be trolling. If you don't agree with a decision to remove your comment, or you think that your comment was accidentally removed, please contact me.