13WHAM.com Community Guidelines

Please read our community guidelines. Posting comments is a privilege we are pleased to offer our visitors. Please understand that we set the bar high when it comes to online dialogue because it is our goal to create an environment for civil and productive community conversation.

Here is a list of the types of comments that are generally not approved by our moderators on news stories:

• Any generalizations about a specific group of people
• Comments that mask or attempt to mask inappropriate language and profanity or that are outright crude
• Name-calling. This includes commonly used words like loser, idiot, moron, jerk
• Comments that make race or citizenship an issue, when neither is indicated or an issue in the story
• Degrading comments about someone who has died
• Comments that make assumptions about subjects in the story. Example: "He was probably drunk and on steroids"
• Comments that are unrelated to the topic or the comments of others
• Comments that don’t focus on a topic, but another poster instead
• Comments that contain specific personal information
• Statistics that don’t reference a verifiable source
• Comments that are repeatedly posted
• Solicitations
• Comments that inquire about deleted posts, or posts that were not allowed

We will frequently review the site to insure that our Community Guidelines or the 13WHAM.com Terms of Service is being followed. If you are offended by a blog post, image or comment you can flag it by clicking on the "Report Abuse" link.

We have the right to remove postings, and/or cancel accounts to enforce these Guidelines or the WHAM.com Terms of Service or as we deem necessary to maintain the integrity of the site or our business. Whatever action we choose to take, our decision is final. We will not always explain our actions, but rest assured we do not take these decisions lightly.

Please direct comments about typos or possible errors in news stories to Allison Watts or use one of the feedback forms.

We welcome strong opinions and criticism of our work, but we don't want comments to become bogged down with discussions of our policies, and we will moderate accordingly.

If your comments are consistently not included and you’d like to find out why, we suggest re-reading the above list. If you feel your comments are in line with our guidelines but are not being posted, please contact Allison Watts.