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Titles<\/strong>: Comments don\u2019t need titles; if used, titles should not look like spam\u2013sex, money, politics and nonspecific greetings (\u201cHi\u201d) lend a spam-like look and may get your comment deleted or reported as spam. If you want to use a title, make it appropriate to the topic-range of this blog.<\/p>\n Topics<\/strong>: Since topic drift is a constant of the \u2018net-verse, moderator may let a conversation drift in hopes that it will drift back, usually with a reminder that this blog has a narrower channel than some others, but eventually (and sooner in some cases) off-topic posts will be deleted. It\u2019s non-negotiable.\u00a0 Speculation on the future of these characters, cultures, etc., and on relationships not sustained by the books, is not appropriate here.\u00a0\u00a0 Fanfic and fanfic type discussion\u00a0 is not appropriate here.<\/p>\n Language<\/strong>: Verbal abuse and profanity are inappropriate here. Disagreement is OK; abuse and harassment are not. Asterisks, exclamation points, and other typography can substitute for profanity when the unabridged dictionary isn\u2019t enough (it usually is\u2026.)<\/p>\n Copyright<\/strong>:\u00a0 It\u2019s not just an old-fashioned word, it\u2019s the law. And it\u2019s a law that matters. So don\u2019t post copyrighted work here without permission (except for brief quotes in the course of a discussion) and cite the source for anything you do quote.\u00a0\u00a0 Note that comments are copyrighted: this includes those of the blog-owner and those visiting.\u00a0\u00a0 This includes prose and verse.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t post (on or off this blog) anything you find here without explicit permission of its writer, whether it\u2019s the blog-owner\u2019s or someone else\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 If you feel your copyright here has been violated, contact the blog-owner<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keeping the Blog\u00a0 Sane and Healthy<\/strong>:\u00a0 The intent is to have a congenial conversational space to chat about the books\u2026but we all know that\u2019s hard to maintain on the internet.\u00a0\u00a0 The potential for misunderstandings is high.\u00a0 It is difficult to tell, online, whether the person you\u2019re sparring with is serious or playful.\u00a0 It is difficult to tell, online, where someone else\u2019s hot buttons are, and what may be found intolerable while seeming (to the sender) to be innocent in intent.<\/p>\n Therefore it is necessary for all participants to be as clear as possible in communicating, including clear signals of things like playfulness,\u00a0 intent, asking and granting or denying permissions for something, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Try to avoid obliqueness and hidden meanings.\u00a0 At the same time, all participants need to be aware that even so they may be misunderstood\u2013and may be misunderstanding someone else\u2019s motives.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Consider miscommunication as a possibility before assuming rudeness or intentional bad motives.\u00a0 Asking for clarification\u2013or giving it\u2013in a non-confrontational way often works in these alien-contact situations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Nonetheless, if the blog-owner decides someone is intentionally causing trouble\u2026that\u2019s it. )<\/p>\n Commenting on older posts: <\/strong>Comments on older posts (often much older) produce the most spam and unacceptable comments.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is true of all the website-embedded blogs and LiveJournal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Giving each individual consideration takes up time I don’t have.\u00a0\u00a0 Also,\u00a0 in these embedded WordPress blogs I don’ t have an option of auto-deleting comments on posts older than X.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t see comments on older posts (if that commenter has graduated from moderation) unless I look at comments as admin.\u00a0 So I’ve decided to automatically disapprove comments on posts older than six months.\u00a0\u00a0 (This policy began in 10\/13 on the other blogs and was enabled from its inception in this one.)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This blog is for discussion of Elizabeth Moon’s science fiction, both books and stories. 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