Recent unpublished comments require this.  I can’t expect everyone to go back to my first post and read them, so I’m repeating them here:

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What are your blog’s policies?  I will start simple and evolve or expand it where or when necessary:

1. Be nice.
2. No heated arguments.
3. No profanities.
4. No insults.
5. No misrepresentation or quotemining.
6. No personal attacks upon myself or others.

Most FtB writers have…animated conversations, to put it politely.  I’m not making comment on other people’s blogs by saying or having those rules.  It’s more a stylistic choice than about controlling conversations.  Not allowing certain things doesn’t prevent anyone from saying or doing such things elsewhere, and it doesn’t tread on anyone’s rights or ability to speak here.