Commenting policy

Readers of this blog are encouraged to comment on my blog posts and pages. However, there are rules that must be followed or the commenter(s) will be blocked or their comments removed:

1. Keep it clean – No foul, offensive language. No nude or partially nude pictures.
2. Don’t try advertising – Do NOT post links to other websites randomly without having a proper reason to do so. A proper place to put links to other websites is when having a debate and you would like to bring up another website that helps with the debate. Advertisements will be removed without notice.
3. Don’t be stupid – Posting in ALL CAPS or BOLD ITALIC AND UNDERLINED is strongly discouraged and does not add emphasis to your comment. Also remember that there’s a limited supply of exclamation marks in the world. If you use too many in a comment, I will be very unhappy.
4. Keep comments relevant.
5. Be concise if possible.
6. Don’t bash other people’s comments – Calling other people stupid or retarded because of what they put on my blog is unacceptable. Everyone has the right to say their way. If you would like to argue or disagree with another commenter’s viewpoint, do so in a constructive manner.

Any comments which violate the rules mentioned above may be deleted, removed, or edited without the commenter’s consent.

For those of you who are concerned about sending email address with comments which are required, I will never sell or publicize your e-mail address in any way, shape or form. Your email address is kept private, and is only used to contact you in very rare cases.

All comments are sent to the author of this blog and are moderated. They may be edited for grammar, spelling, and other conventions. The editor will keep his edits to a minimum in order to preserve the commenter’s voice and emotion. The author/editor of this blog also reserves the right to disapprove comments or substitute words and/or names if necessary.

A note on Ratings and Reviews

All ratings given on this blog are the opinions of the author unless otherwise stated.

A 10/10 rating does not signify perfection, nor does a 0/10 rating signify complete and epic failure. The reason is quite simple. Anything can be reviewed, from cars to boats to scientific theories and even other reviews. Since there are such a variety of objects that can undergo critique, there are many different ways to rate such objects and ideas. For example, if a product advertises to perform one function and that is to make chocolate, I would expect that making chocolate would be all that it should do. If such a product makes chocolate perfectly, flawlessly, and non-erroneously every time, then it does what it’s supposed to, and I would give it a 10/10. On the other hand, if a product advertises to make chocolate, do laundry, compute logarithms, along with five other tasks, a 10/10 for the product would either mean that it does all of these perfectly or that it is one of my favorite machines even though there are rare glitches. If the machine cannot make chocolate, I would give it a rating of 8.5/10, and adjust that to how much I like the machine. I usually only rate on how well the product works and occasionally, how much I like it. Similarly, I tend not to review products that are not of my interest or that I dislike.

In general, products that perform how they’re supposed to perform receive high ratings, and vice versa.