{"id":5439,"date":"2009-11-28T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/28\/revised-comments-policy\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T18:27:08","slug":"revised-comments-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/28\/revised-comments-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised comments policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/comments\/\" target=\"_blank\">comments policy<\/a> of this bog has been revised.<\/p>\n<p>The addition is items 6 and 7 in the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For a comment to be published I must be satisfied that:<\/p>\n<p>1. It is legal;<\/p>\n<p>2. It is polite;<\/p>\n<p>3. It includes an argument that adds value to readers;<\/p>\n<p>4. It appears factually accurate;<\/p>\n<p>5. That the commentator is genuine;<\/p>\n<p>6. It is not promoting an opinion usually associated with the far right political fringes (for these purposes the UK Independence Party and beyond within the UK domestic environment);<\/p>\n<p>7. It is not posted by a person I consider to be usually associated with the far right of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are three good reasons for this change in policy:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>People tell me they are bored with the contributions of those from the far right and they spoil enjoyment of this blog and of 95% of all blogs they want to read. These comments do not, therefore, add value to this site;<\/li>\n<li>I do not think it my job to provide these people with a platform;<\/li>\n<li>I no longer have the time to rebut their comments, as I feel compelled to do if they are on this blog. I have too much more urgent and important work to do than engage with those of closed mind who wish to undermine society. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comments policy of this bog has been revised. The addition is items 6 and 7 in the following: For a comment to be published<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/28\/revised-comments-policy\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}