A reminder to the readers of The Beat

All comments are screened before they are posted. Comments that are rude and disrespectful are immediately marked as spam. They will be submitted to WordPress and reported as abuse.

Of course, I welcome comments from people whose opinions differ from mine.  If you do not agree with or disapprove of any of my articles, you may leave your comments or suggestions here.  They will be regarded as important. This is, after all, the blogging universe, where democracy and free speech abound and are highly celebrated. Comments, however, should be respectful and non-combative. Please, I refuse to waste my time on individuals who think they have the right to be abusive. No matter what the circumstances in your life may be, you have a duty to act the way a human being should.

Once a comment is marked as spam, the IP address of the person who left the comment is stored in Akismet’s database. A new comment generated from the same IP address will therefore be automatically marked as spam, too. It will not appear on my Pending Comments page; it will be sent to the Spam folder. I don’t check my Spam folder. I automatically empty it.

One person has been leaving rude comments here. But my policy applies to all visitors of this site. Please be responsible, readers.

Again, all comments are screened before they are posted. Comments that are rude and disrespectful are immediately marked as spam. They will be submitted to WordPress and reported as abuse.