Comment Policy at Uskowi on Iran

Uskowi on Iran encourage all of our readers to comment. Our goal is to maintain a community where readers feel free to express themselves, but we also recognize that some conversations following blog posts on this site can descend into negative sniping and personal attacks. When this happens, we reserve the right to close the comments on those pages. Comment moderation is in effect and comments are usually processed within three to six hours.

We encourage comments that:

- Are "on topic", and that respond to the content in the blog post
- Are responses to comments left by other readers

- Are to-the-point and substantive
- Have a positive/constructive tone
- Are open to being contradicted by other readers
- Might disagree with the content in the blog post, but they never insult the writer of the blog post, or other commenters

We discourage comments that:

- Are not "on topic", or are not responding to other comments or the content in the blog post
- Are non-substantive or non-contributive to intelligent discussion
- Insult the writer of the blog post or other commenters
- Are negative or juvenile in tone

We will delete comments, without notice, that:

- Are abusive, harassing, threatening or vulgar
- Are personal attacks, including name-calling or celebrations of another person's death or misfortune
- Contain advertising or spam