About the Comments Section
Topic: Misc.
I've noticed a few people on the Gutshot and Hendon Mob forums claim that I've deleted posts that they have written in the comments section of this blog. I would like to make clear that while I reserve the right to delete comments, in practice I have only ever done so for two reasons. One is obscenity - which happened on the first day that I enabled comments. The other is for duplication, when someone has unintentionally entered the same comment twice (see below).

Note that posting a comment is a two-stage process. After typing it in and posting it (press 'continue'), you will be given a preview of how it will look. But this is only a preview and if you leave at this point, your message will be lost. You must press 'post comment' for it to be lodged. This takes time and some people press it a second time and thus duplicate their post, because nothing seems to be happening. Please be patient.

It is possible that sofware problems have caused posts to fail to appear in the past, but I strongly suspect that most people who think I've deleted something didn't realise that they had to press 'post comment' after seeing the preview. I have never deleted something just because I didn't agree with it.