Comment Policy 

We encourage reasoned debate and discussion, fresh information, nattering idiocy and yowls of despair from commenters on CL blogs, stories, locations, and events. But we can’t vouch for the accuracy or tastefulness of comments. We reserve the right to delete comments that are libelous, defamatory, in violation of copyright law, inappropriate or harmful. We also reserve the right to ban individuals who are repeat offenders of such comments.

Please remember, we offer our website as a forum for community involvement and engagement, but access to the site is, at its core, a privilege and not a right. We won’t police every discussion on the site, but we take comment violations seriously.

If you feel a comment is not germane to the discussion, inflammatory, spammy, or otherwise unfit to be up on the site, please report it by clicking on the “Report this comment” link found under every comment on the site. We will then evaluate the violation and take action to pull the comment in dispute, at our discretion.

We do not edit comments for content, grammar, spelling or punctuation, and we are not legally responsible for what a user writes. Statements only reflect the opinions of their authors.