Dear Commenters, We Need to Talk…

We ’ve babble out abouthow the commenting systemand thosecrazy tagpageswork , but it seems that it ’s time for a different sort of give-and-take . Yeah , it ’s apparently prison term to talk about round , jerky , doo - doo principal , dirty commenters , and the banhammer .

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Sometimes we ’ll give warning before we censor — in the form of a reply to your comment , an unstarring , or a disemvoweling — and other clip we wo n’t . It depends on the office . Often it ’s not even a single input that results in a ban , but rather a pattern in the commenter ’s history . Each ban , disemvoweling , unstarring , or warning is treat on a character - by - cause foundation , but here are some frequent causes for such action to be take :

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Personal Attacks

It ’s quite alright to disagree with a post , mental object , or opinion — but there ’s no reason to make it personal and leave someone crying himself to sleep at nighttime . No one ’s asking you to write responses that start with “ dear sir , I implore your forgiveness , but my thoughts differ from yours , ” but there ’s also no need to drop a line thing like “ you f - ing idiot , you ’re amiss . ”

Off-Topic Discussion

Annoying the Hell Out of Everyone

Will it blend ? Does it run Crysis ? It ’s not a large deal . get off from my iDevice . I , for one welcome [ some kind of ] overlords . In Soviet Russia the commenters ban YOU . Step 1 : Comment . stone’s throw 2 : Get Banned . Step 3 : ? ? ? Step 4 : Profit ! Yo dawg , I hear you like the banhammer . First post ! LOL ! LMAO !

Those tired and tacky reflexion , phrases , memes , and similar ones are n’t as funny as you might think they are . They also put you at risk of a forbidding — specially if your input does n’t consist of anything else .

Trolling

There are some folks who get a kicking out of baiting angry responses by save some utter nonsense or playing the fiend ’s advocator to an extreme . Sometimes it ’s unintentional and innocent , but we ’ll toss you out if we notice that it ’s a form .

Whining About Content

Not everything we stake will be of interest to you or mayhap sometimes there ’ll be too much of a good or bad thing . It happens and your first instinct might be to whine or rant about it — please do n’t ! You have other choice .

Instead of squall about what you do n’t care , you’re able to hint what you do like and require to read more about in our # tips box . you could also filter out content that you do n’t like using our tag system and creating a custom Sir Frederick Handley Page along the lines of http : gizmodo.com / tatter / not : annoyingcontent / not : moreannoyingcontent ( with ‘ annoying content ” and “ moreannoyingcontent ” being interchange by whichever tags you do n’t like — you should be capable to stack as many tags as you want . )

Professing Your Love and Lust

It ’s fine if you profess your love and lust for gadget , but please refrain from hitting on writers and editor in chief . It pay back uncomfortable to understand about what you want to do to our aphrodisiacal fiddling bodies or about what you think we do to inanimate objects in our secret time . The line between flattering , creepy , and downright scary is often far too thin .

Obnoxious Corrections

We ’re human — most of us at least — and we make mistakes . Sometimes they ’re grammatical , sometimes structural , sometimes we ca n’t spell worth a damn , and sometimes we ca n’t do math . It ’s hunky-dory to call us out on that using the # correction tag , but it ’s not o.k. to be obnoxious and affront our education or our mothers while doing so .