The Samovar

My comments policy so far is simple. I do not plan to delete any comments, and if for some reason I do (e.g. duplicate posts), I will always post a note saying that I have done so and explaining my reason. If your post doesn’t appear, it is because of the spam filtering. I have left this on because every blog gets a lot of spam and I have better things to do than delete them all by hand. Some comments get referred to me if they are borderline (usually because they contain more than one link, apparently a good indicator of spam) and will be allowed as soon as I look at them. Others disappear without notice. If you have posted a message and it hasn’t appeared within a few days, email me and I will look into it. I recently found that the spam filtering on this site actually blocked one of my own messages because it had a link to an anonymising web site, which is rather dubious from a political point of view.

If I change my comments policy, I will announce it in a blog entry, and change this page.