Living room rules
Let me offer a quick clarification on policy and procedure here on the blog.
For most posts, I turn comments on. I enjoy discussion. You’re welcome to express your opinion and disagree. But it’s my house. If you’re being uncivil to me or the other people here, I may warn you, or simply kick you out.
When new users post a comment, the system holds it in moderation until Matt or I have a chance to review it. This helps cut down on spammers and scammers.
There is also an automated spam detection system (Akismet), which will occasionally flag a valid comment as spam — particularly if there are more than two links embedded in it. If your comment hasn’t shown up for 24 hours, send us an email and we’ll check for it.
When necessary, I delete comments. Here’s a guide for making sure your comment doesn’t get deleted:
- Stay pretty much on topic.
- Don’t link to your own sites, except in the URL spot.
- Be polite. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say in my living room.
When a comment violates any of these three points, I’ll happily delete it. It’s one click for me. So keep that in mind before you spend 10 minutes writing something that won’t show up.
These are all fairly standard Living Room Rules, but some people seem unfamiliar with them, so I thought it would be better to state them explicitly.
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December 8th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Soooo…. humping the couch is not okay?
December 8th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Hey, thanks John. I guess most posters would prefer being in your living-room, talking insted of posting. I know i would. It
s very fair to exclude the ones who dont. I don`t see this as a forum, this is a blog, and any comment chance is very cool actually. And some replies to posts are valuable.I want to take the time to wish you a Merry Christmas. -Thanks for cool posts this year-
December 8th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Wow, I’m guessing your last post caused a furor… (Ah, okay, just went back and read some comments, and of course, those are the ones that made it.) Well I’m no screenwriter, so my opinion might be moot, but…
LOL to Emily Blake! :D
December 8th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Hi John, you come as a ruler. You love rules. You can´t live without them, or without trying to organize other people´s… and their mouths!
Real conversations are not so narrow minded and can flow from topic to topic. Welcome to the Internet (search for net neutrality, and freedom of opinion.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Over at artfulwriter.com they have a system that keeps a placeholder for deleted posts. It says something like “This post was deleted by [user] for reason: [reason]” which is a great way to get the last word on a post by post basis.
This feature is not part of the blog per se, it’s part of the ‘forums.’ You’ve already got ’scrippets’ so why not a ‘quippets’ or ’snippets’ module for the blog? :-) -Jonathan
December 8th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Hey John, have you tried the WP-SpamFree plugin? Personally I’ve had better luck with it than with Akismet, but I think it depends on the type of traffic a site gets.
(I’m not affiliated with either plugin.)
December 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
STAY on topic? Is it good enough if I start out on topic and then drift?
December 8th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I like that: Living Room Rules.
I often play the Jackass of the room in RL and Online… drinking too much, doing something embarrassing (like falling off the balcony last Friday), going home alone and licking my wounds for the rest of the weekend.
Someone came to my blog via your Scriptshadow post (my URL) and dissed my script’s opening pages. Hahahaa… not cool. If I didn’t ‘like’ something someone else wrote, I sure as hell wouldn’t ‘tell’ them in ‘their’ Living Room.
December 8th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Kudos for you! It is your house and it is your rules, and more important than anything, this is not the place for random anonymous people from the internet to attack and flame.
If anyone has something so important to vent and rage, they can do so in the anonymity of their own blogs, but guess what? No one read them because they have nothing to say.
I love when people “with strong opinions” always talk about “freedom of speech”. In their minds, they are the unrecognized shakespeares and Einsteins of the internet.
Best regards from Colombia and don´t bother with the internet crap. I am not a screenwriter and even so I read your blog every chance I get.
December 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
P.S
Some times you think you’re posting Anonymously, but the reality is we know where you live.
Your city anyway.
Unless you’re using an iPhone.
Or a Blackberry.
Then it’s pretty much anonymous.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
sad that you find yourself having to clarify the obvious.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
@Racicot : i know. Pretty much anyone can be tracked down. With the blackberry it`s even easier if you write something non-legal. Speaking of non-legal stuff…. Disney is apart of the team getting a Norwegian internet provider in court. I wanted to know why sites like RapidShare are not apart of the court-order. And I wonder why they lost the first time. My prime project right now.
December 8th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
As the provider is the gouverment of the internet in the particular area, they hold responsible for the content provided by it
s fee paying custimors and theyre owned page. Or the particular site should be held responsible for any non-legal content. There is no law saying uploading sites should be able to do a service. Why should they even have the right to birth. And if so, if they cant be in control of the content on the site and studdy says the non-legal content are up. Then it should be legally fined or closed down completely. Telenor is entering a new era. If they cant be the law aswell and fight a crime very easy to them, an internet firm doing that must be made. Proceeded correctly, If they reject pulling the cable willingly, they are doing a crime by willingly open up for it to happen, and they should have the fine.December 8th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Closing comments. Didn’t really need to be open in the first place.