Our goal, in offering the opportunity to comment on our stories, is to allow our readers to express opinions and exchange ideas about the news -- without creating an intimidating space full of anger, name-calling, and fruitless feuding.
We don't ask you to register in advance in order to leave comments. We ask only for your real name, which will appear beside your comment, and your email address, which will not appear on our website.
We screen all comments before they appear on the website. Most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive. But which comments are posted is ultimately up to our moderators.
What we want are thoughtful, well-written, concise comments. What we don't want is obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), personal attacks, ads for your business or SHOUTING.
We are more likely to post comments from readers who give their real name rather than hiding behind a fake one.
We will generally delete comments rather than edit them, though we reserve the right to edit comments.
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