I have seen many people writing comment policies for their blogs, so I thought I would take this opportunity to make my own, so here it is:

I really appreciate it when a reader of this blog takes the time to leave a comment on a post. However, I reserve the right to remove any link or comment from this blog at my own discretion, without an explanation (although, normally I will give an explanation; unless it is obviously spam). I also reserve the right to republish your words in any form.

I actively encourage you to start and continue discussions on this blog, no matter how old or new the post is. I will not remove or edit any comment if it disagrees with what I have written or starts a debate – this is normal, and it gets a discussion going as opposed to a "hello, thanks for this post" type of comment – be my guest to start a comment war, so long as it doesn't get out of hand and turn into a war-with-flames.

You should be aware that as this blog is part of the "I Follow Movement", comments that are left purely for the link value and not to contribute to the discussion may be removed. My blog does remove the 'nofollow' relative from every link that you post inside of your comment (including your websites link on your name) and complies with the "I Follow Movement", this means that whenever you post a comment on my blog, any search engine bot that indexes my blog will follow the link from my blog to yours.

This blog is protected by Akismet, the anti-spam tool for WordPress. All of your comments will be scanned for known spam-like features, prior to being shown on the post. This will take a mere few seconds, but I cannot guarentee that all spam is caught with Akisment and, in some rare cases, a legitimate comment may end up in the spam filter. If you think this has happened to you, feel free to contact me and let me know. Any spam that is not automatically caught by Akismet will be manually removed by me.

Let me round this up a little:

  • I appreciate comments.
  • I reserve the right to remove any link or comment.
  • I reserve the right to republish your words in any form.
  • This blog is part of the "I Follow Movement".
  • I actively encourage you to start and continue discussions.
  • Start a comment war if you wish (but not with flames).
  • This blog is protected by Akismet and comment spam will be deleted.

This is not to say that leaving comments on my blog should now be a hard-ship due to you having to watch what you write – go ahead and write whatever, if I really think that it isn't valuable I can contact you and/or remove it – most of the time I will just leave it be, though.

You can read more about this matter on the Comment Policy page.