June 29, 2009

Blog Guidelines

  • Be critical and thought provoking, but not malicious or degrading.

  • We will delete any comments that are profane, malicious, degrading, pornographic in nature, or unnecessarily hurtful.

  • No personal attacks, hate speech, or threats toward individuals, religious figures, or other comment posters.

  • No flaming, trolling, or baiting.

  • Do not post comments or images that defame, compromise trade secrets, or violate the copyright or other intellectual property rights of any third party.

  • To protect users' privacy, we discourage the inclusion of your or others' personal information, such as e-mail addresses, in your comments.

  • This is an online community for our users, not a means for advertisers to promote their websites or products. Therefore, we will delete all advertising posts.

  • The views and opinions expressed in blog comments belong to the people who write them only.

  • When quoting any other blog or publication, link to the original and use quotation marks or indents for longer text.

  • Blog editors review all comments and may remove your comments at the sole discretion of APA.

  • APA reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time.