We welcome comments, with the proviso that this is our private space and commenters are guests in it. Guests are welcome, but we reserve the right to moderate comments which

- are aggressive or personally offensive (especially racist, homophobic, all those things)

- are better suited to other channels (please don't comment on a post about narrative theory to ask when an Ambition will be updated or complain you can't get enough Whispered Secrets :-) )

- are deliberately provocative or trollish

- are likely to get us sued by bigger, scarier companies

- are factually inaccurate

- are irrelevant or superfluous.

- are sock-puppet postings

- contain an obviously fictitious email address, eg foo@bar.com. Email addresses are only visible to FBG, and we don't share them with anyone else. This is a basic threshold of non-trollishness and a way for us to communicate with commenters. Feel free to use an alternative or anonymous email address as long as it's a working one.

- are spam.

[Acknowledgement: this policy is loosely based on the one at http://crookedtimber.org/notes-for-trolls-sockpuppets-and-other-pests/, a very different sort of blog with which we have no affiliation.]