Comments Policy

Comments to posts are encouraged to generate dialog on the issues raised on Mind Parts. I welcome a healthy dialog. And I, generally, reply in the thread to every comment.

If you are a regular commenter here, thank you! Your views are important to me and almost certainly helpful to others. If you have not commented here, please consider making your views known and your voice heard. Feel free to chime in! I, and others, do read all comments and take them all seriously. Because there aren't hundreds of comments on any one post, there is a reasonable dialog that's not overwhelming.

When posting a comment, you can use your full name, just first name or anything you wish (pseudonym) as long as it's appropriate. If you post regularly, I ask you to please be consistent in the name you use.

A valid electronic mail address is required which will never be posted on the website. It's only used for private communication and, if you request, notification of new comments. If you check "Notify me of follow-up comments via email", it will allow you to keep track of the discussions. In this case, you will receive an email when a new comment is published. If you click "Remember me?", your information will be saved for future submissions (as long as you use the same computer).

I do welcome healthy discussion, and that includes disagreement. While I cherish the right to free speech, I reserve the right to not post certain comments. This site is carefully edited, in part to keep it safe for me and all the readers. It's not a message forum, so comments need to be tied to my posts and not be too off topic. My general guidelines are that comments must be appropriate, contribute to the discussion, and be respectful.

All comments must be approved by me before they get published. If a comment does not get approved, I will let you know what the problems are. If you are still interested in having your comment posted, we can discuss how to rectify these problems and you can resubmit.

Finally, I do sometimes change the submission date and time on a comment. I do that only so that my replies can appear in the proper order with the thread of all comments (e.g., if I get two comments near the same time, then I will publish the first, reply to the first and change the date on the second to appear after my original reply). My replies are always in italics and if I need to link to another related blog post, I will usually post that in bold.

Thank you for commenting. Your views are very much welcomed on Mind Parts!

If you have any questions, please contact me.