How to Protect Your Comments from Deletion

UPDATE (10/18): While I can often get to the computer on Fridays, I usually don't get to it after Shabbat until Sunday noon or later. This means there could be an annoyingly long lag between the time you make a comment and between the time it appears (particularly if you place a comment on Friday after I've already checked the blog and your comment only appears 48 hours later).

If I'm in the middle of another project or two, that can also cause a lag in comment approval.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience and just wanted to let you know what's going on and why.

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I'm sure there is no need to say the following, but clear boundaries are always nice and I want your comment to be published, not deleted.

So just for kicks, here's the policy:

• Please use some kind of name, even if it's just an alias.

(Anything but "Anonymous" - including no variations of Anonymous, like: "Anonymous #5" or "Anon.")

And please:

• No lashon hara
• No heresy (including trolling under the guise of a sincere questioner with seemingly innocent inquiries like: "But how can we really KNOW that we aren't all sitting on the back of a giant cosmic turtle? If everything is in the Torah, then why doesn't it mention giant cosmic turtles ANYWHERE?")

• No missionary stuff or any kind of proselytizing

• No insults (including frum insults like "erev rav" or "apikorses" or "koifer" or "am ha'aretz," etc.)
• No profanity (including Yiddish terms)

And please think twice before commenting when you're too tired, too unwell, or too mad to think straight. Me, too.

​Thank you!