Comment Policy
If your comment does not appear immediately do not worry. It has gone for moderation. Therefore, there is no need for you to submit the comment again. I generally try to check as soon as I can but at times it could take a day or so. If you have a website, kindly note it down in the box which says ‘URL.’
The following points to be noted:
1) If you want to post a comment on an article, this is not the place…you need to go to that article itself. Just click on the words ‘Comments’ at the bottom of the article and the comment box will appear. This page is here only to tell you what kinds of comments are acceptable. You can also click on the title of the article for the comment form to appear.
2) Your comments are highly valued so go ahead and say it, but please be polite! 
3) Comments of a personal nature, and personal attacks or abuses will not be published. It is likely that the comment will not be deleted but simply edited, if the comment puts forward an argument. If the comment is mostly personal in nature it will be deleted. If any serious allegation is made about any person, whether a commentator, or about a person mentioned in the main post, kindly support it with an internet link. All such comments will be dealt with sternly.
4) Racist comments will not be published and nor will comments denigrating any community or religion.
5) In fact, no indecent, inflammatory, slanderous or uncivil comment/trackback will be published. Some people like to goad others, and I feel if you want to pick a fight, then do it somewhere else.
6) Any comment irrelevant to the post may not be published and nor will repetitive comments or comments which contain false information.
7) If you make any strong claim it is preferable that you give some reference by way of a link to back up your statement otherwise it may not be taken seriously and if it is thought to be blatantly false, it can be deleted. In fact if you are contradicting the authenticity of any article (not just my blogpost, but also the references which I have quoted) you need to furnish a link which will convince me that your comment is not malicious or motivated.
Although I publish anonymous comments, they make me uncomfortable. It will be nice if you choose a name, any name. Please give a valid email address. If you feel that you do not want to give your email ID to WordPress, you can send me an email with your genuine email ID and give a fake one on the comment form. But really, all this is not necessary. You can always create a new email ID for the purpose of commenting if you do not want to give your usual one.
9. The opinions expressed by the commentators are not necessarily my own.
10). Twisting or misinterpreting either the post or the comments will not be appreciated and will get an appropriate response. Such a comment could well be perceived by me to be dishonest, specially if the same commentator does it again with a different post. Such comments will either be responded to firmly, edited or deleted.
11) Arguments are welcome…put across in a decent, civilized way. In fact I welcome a debate. And do remember that I too have an opinion! One person suggested to me that when I write I should write all points of view, but that’s ridiculous. I can only write what I see myself, what I believe in. I write from the point of view of myself, this is my world view. After all, the comments form is there for you to disagree…but do remember that it’s a conversation and not a quarrel…
So why all these restrictions? Well, the rights of this blog lie with me. And as in my personal life I tend to be a polite well-meaning person I tend to seek out those who are like this - no matter what their religion, their political leanings, caste, country or colour. Also please remember it’s those who are not capable of making a reasoned argument usually curse, and write nasty and hateful comments. In other words dumb people, not bad people.
Added Later:
1) To all those who comment here just to tell other commentators to shut up and end the discussion: Sorry pal, your comment will not be published. There is no compunction on anyone to comment here. If people get bored they automatically stop commenting. That is their privilege. They don’t need anyone to tell them to shut up.
2) Anti-national comments (calls to cut India into little bits) will not be published.
3) Comments of a commercial nature will not be published. However if the link adds to the post, then it is welcome as the main purpose of my blog is to provide to the reader with as many views on the subject as possible.
4) However, nothing irritates me more than someone inserting a comment only for the sake of promoting his or her own blog (or his friend’s blog) by giving a link to a particular post on that blog…I really cannot say whether I will keep the link. Often these type of comments are not directly related to my post, and there is no accompanying comment at all!! Just the link! Of late this (people leaving such post links) is happening a lot. Every second or third ‘comment’ I get is like this!! When you write a comment, your website will be automatically displayed anyway if you fill in the box which asks for your website.
5) Also at times comments slip into the spam folder and there is no logic or reasoning behind this. Only WordPress knows. While I try to retrieve genuine comments from there, it can happen that I miss some as I get hundreds of spam messages in a day. At times I delete spam without checking! So do be understanding if you feel your comment hasn’t appeared inspite of it being a polite comment, and inspite of its main content not being a commercial message!
6) If I find that you are writing nasty comments, making false statements, or using multiple identities I reserve the right to publish your IP address so anyone can track you down.
I urge you to read something on Net Etiquette if this is the first time you are commenting here, or are new to the internet world, or you simply want to know more about how to write comments effectively. Also do read this wiki explanation of what Flaming is. It means basically to provoke others by being nasty and rude.
Thank you for coming to my blog and I hope you will join in the conversation!
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I stumbled upon this blogspage through the Tagsurfer.
There is so much to read here.
I will slowly, as time permits.
I read your comments policy.
I just wanted to say.
I feel personal/racial insults if allowed to stand, will only prove the mindset of the commentator, and not you. You should trust us, the readers, to decide for ourselves.
Removing these kinds of comments may only mask the truth. This is purely how I feel. Other may disagree.
I of course agree, any unnecessary filth in form of thoughts or words has no place in society.
I agree with you principle Little Indian. The comments do tell a lot about the nature of the person writing them. But I feel that there are vulnerable people on the internet (not just kids) who can either get inflamed by reading the comments, get hurt, or add to the abuse. Not everyone has the ability to be strong.
If there are people with extreme views (I have got a couple of those which I had to delete) frankly, the comments they made revolted me. In not a single comment was an argument made: just these people are xxx and this person xxxx etc. The comments of those who disagree with me are not deleted…because it is possible to talk to them. But if a person says all Indians are xxx, or all whites are xxx, or all muslims are xxxx, or all Hindus are xxx, frankly these people make me sick and I know I can never answer them or convince them.
Hi Nita,
I stumbled upon your site, as I was searching google, to find comments on railway-shit and found, the comments by students from US university’d as they interacted with The Hon Minister. Kindly review http://www.railwayshit.com and I tend to use railwaysHit.com capitalizing the “H” and thus be able to look at all things railways…however, this major public health issue needs urgent attention… it is people such as you, with an audience and an abilty to mobilize public opinion that can do it. let us take the responsiblity to solve this problem.
Look forward to hear from you. Keep up the good work.
If you or anyone wanted to hurt any country, you could do nothing worse than to have a 40,000 mile network on which one sprays human faecal matter daily in the hundreds of tons category, spreading disease through the water and air, such that the people of that country would be ill…this is what is happening with our railways.. even as good as it is… this needs to be fixed ASAP…
George
i am a citizen of hapur [ ghaziabad] u.p. . i m pursuing pgdbm.
how can i take franchisee of subhiksha as i am very much inspired from your business model
plz send me the term and condition and also the contact no.
Shubham, I have nothing to do wtih Subhiksha. I am a writer.
1. we read news about arrest of many tribals caught for catching birds in forests and city gardens.
- In bangalore there are several shops in the name of “pet animals” selling enormous species of rare birds and animals. Who gave them licence and are they not channels for extinguishing these birds.
- Today the bird population in and around MG Road, Cubbon Park, Lalbagh, is dissapearing gradually because of these shops who have bird catchers on their payrolls.
Can you make a study and bringout culprits to book?
CITIZEN
2. Kissin scenes are shown in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu Movies commonly besides English Movies that are freely shown unrestricted for viewing by all ages.
What is wrong with S Shetty being kissed on cheeks?
3.Important - Please do something:
Pigeons have become a big menace in the cities. They are a big nuisance for living in apartments and big commercial buildings They make funny noice. induge in mating all the time non stop, and dirty every building Pigeon meat is eaten by lots of people. Why govt should not encourage catching selling igeon meat everyshere. this will bring down chicken and mutton prices, increase food availabilty at lower prices, keepthe city clean and survival of many other species of birds due to more food availability to them. If chicken can be killed and eaten, why not pigeons.
Note in one of the European country people are allowed to shoot pigeons for fun and eliminate pigeons since they have become the biggestr menace to the cleanliss of buildings
Please do something
4.
If you do not pay Your electricity Bill or your water supply bill promptly Your connection is cut.
Why a land lord cannot discoonnect these supplies when tenant does not pay the rent
How does hardship defined in each case
Please do something
citizen
I think you have a very sensible and decent comment policy. Keep up the good work!
Dear Nita,
First of all i must thank you for the genuine concern you had for the socially,economically and politically suppressed section of the Country living in the Himalayan range and the so-called Northeastern region of the country.
Dear Nita,
First of all i must thank you for the genuine concern you had for the socially, economically and politically suppressed section of the Country living in the Himalayan range and the so-called Northeastern region of the country in your article “How does India treat the North-Easterners” ?
As a social activist who had been trying whatever humble afford I can do for the promotion of integration between the NE and the main land for over 18 yrs, I would like to share my observation.
That, most people in India are too much caste concious except few people like you who move around the country and mixed with different communities.
Secondly, too much selfish and hyprocrite in nature and wanted to exploit any opportunities withou thinking the damages it might cause to the other person .
Thirdly, economically well and sound and wanted to maintain their so-called high standard.
People in the northeast are a late commer into the main stream with typical cultures and way of life which is completely different from the rest of the Country. They are straight forward in nature and expect to be treated equally. Hipocracy / double standard exploiting somebody beyond limits and drawing advantages for personal gains etc is something most NE people did not practice except the POLITICIANS.
NE people are not aware of the caste syatem and also could not meet the standard of the middle class Indian societies.
Challenges: The Government must take up grass root interest in the promotion of national integration and also protect the N E people from any racial abuses which is not happening till today. It is a sad thing that some Politicians / bureaucrats even from the Northeast region are immitating the Hinglish gentlemen rather than guiding their people.
With regard
K.Zou
Thanks for your observations Zou. I find them very revealing and have therefore copied your comments (giving your name) on to the main post about
discrimination against north-easterners
Thanks again.
ur comments policy is fair, but i do have reservations on ur policy
on linking. i link to posts i find extremely interesting,just like i add good blogs on my roll not essentially to increase the traffic on my blog (yes there are many people doin that) but for ppl i know to read what i find interesting
and very relevant. u should wait a tad bit before really just doin a blanket delete
i had linked to ur post from way back i found very interesting and god knows what happened of it
I am not sure what you mean Prax. If you go through the comments on my posts you will see an awful lot of links! Much much more than any other blog. I think I am more than fair. The only link I delete is when people do not comment on my post at all…just leave a link. I don’t know what link you left, but if it was a link without a comment, then it won’t be kept, unless its an outside link, and not to your own blog post.
I think leaving links to one’s own blog post without any comment to go with it is incorrect. The comment box is for comments, not for links! But as I said I am more than fair and there are an awful lot of links in my comments. Also, there are tmes when people leave links in my comment boxes (of their own blog post) which have absolutely nothing to do with the post! This is I am afraid blatant self promotion and I frown upon it.
And I have not mentioned a thing in my comment policy about the blogroll so you are confusing me here! You won’t get traffic on your blog by adding links to a blogroll so I have no idea what you mean.
generally links are added as comments by wp
blogroll is also a medium of expression of a bloggers likes and tastes in reading
now that i am a regular hope things r sorted out
wow! that is huge list of policies. i have lost my eye sight just to read it…………….. just joking!
its really nice thing!
I seriously think you must start implementing your comment policy more seriously in this space. Some comments are totally irrelevant. Like that one on Subhiksha.
You are right Amrutha. It’s just that at times when I realise a comment is irrelevant I don’t even read it properly. I have got some really silly comments on that Subhiksha post. - Nita
hi nita
I read your some blogs and specialy why you start blog is very important for me. Because I was also working as a journalist ,but now i leave the job.But i love writing ,but don’t have place where to write.Ediors always tell that they dont have place for my feature.I wrote some stories but i am not satisfied.When i read your posts i get way.Few days ago i started my blog.please read and give me suggestions.Because i am very new in this world.please visit my blog-maitra ashwini
Ashwini, thanks but you have not left the url of your blog and therefore I cannot check it out. - Nita