March 6, 2005 at 11:04PM Comments rights on this site
Spurred by this post on Ned’s blog, I think I’d better outline my attitude towards comment copyright on this site.
Bryan Price posted up a link to his site disclaimer in one of the comments. He pretty much sums up my own views on it, but I’d better phrase it in my own language:
- This is my site, and any content on it is mine: quote away, link all you like, just attribute me.
- If somebody posts something, that belongs to them. However, by posting here, you implicitly give me the right to archive and display what you posted.
- It’s a good idea to supply email addresses when you comment because if you ever want me to remove something I’ll only accept the request if your email address and the address of the comment match. Otherwise, tough.
- I reserve the right to remove any comments. I may even edit your comment if I’ve very good reason, but any edits will be completely transparent and annoted. I try to suck as little as possible, but this is, after all, my personal dictatorship.
- Spam and nonsense will be deleted. Don’t even bother. Particularly, spamming comments with links to crap won’t work here. Why? I’ve the site set up so that search engines ignore any outgoing links on any pages with comments on them. Oh, the joy of nofollow!
And there you go. That’s surely fair enough, isn’t it?
Comments, by the way, rock my world, so don’t be afraid to post them. ![[wink]](/images/smilies/wink.gif){kind=small}
1 On March 8, 2005 at 16:30, Bryan Price wrote:
I’m glad you like my disclaimer. I’m just wondering when I changed my last name to Singer.![[wink]](/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Thanks for the link! Technorati rocks!
2 On March 10, 2005 at 20:24, Keith wrote:
D’oh! Sorry about that Bryan. My mind must’ve been elsewhere at the time.
Anyhow, cheers, and corrected!
3 On March 14, 2005 at 3:46, Bryan Price wrote:
Thanks for the correction!![[biggrin]](/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
This time, I found this via PubSub (ego surfing via RSS is so nice!)