Commenting Guidelines

When commenting on this website, please keep the following points in mind:

• You may include HTML or Markdown in your comment. Comments are converted to HTML and sanitised before they are published on this website.

• All submitted comments are held for review. Whether a comment is published or not is at the discretion of the author of this website.

• Typically, only the following types of comments are published:

  • Comments that add new information or insight to the topic discussed in an article.
  • Comments that provide a neutral, supporting or opposing viewpoint.
  • Comments that report typos, errors or bugs on the website.
  • Comments that contain good humour.
  • Comments that express appreciation.

• Generally, rants are not published, even when the post you are commenting on is itself a rant. This website is the author's place to rant. It is not your place to rant. If you really need to rant, please do so on your own website. This guideline exists to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio in the comments section.

• All comments deemed suitable for this website by its author become publicly available on this website at two places: on the comment page for the article you commented on (example) and on the overall comment index page at comments.

• Do not submit sensitive personal data in your comments.