Some things you should know about commenting on this site,
or that you may like to know (see further below):

We’ve recently (September and October 2014) decided to start allowing commenting on our site tant.co.za We’ve had sites in the past where we’ve allowed commenting, but we weren’t spending too much time on some of those sites, and it became a pain to very often go and empty the spam out.

We used a plugin that sends spam comments to a specific area in the backend of our site, so they didn’t appear publicly, but we still wanted these spam comments off our site completely, and had to frequently visit our sites and “empty out the trash” (or empty the spam). We’ve since learned that we can actually set the spam comments to automatically delete spam comments on posts more than a month old, and we may start using that. We do sometimes like to go through a few of the spam comments just in case a legitimate comment got tossed into the spam folder by mistake, but we’ll see if that happens often, and if not, we’ll do the new setting.

However, we do spend quite a bit of time on this site. tant.co.za , and it’s not such a big deal to often empty out the spam here – so we thought we’d allow comments again
– on at least some of our posts.

Some things you should know about commenting on this site,
or that you may like to know:

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please also see our disclaimer

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Comments are allowed, or not allowed, or moderated, or edited, or deleted,
entirely at our own discretion.

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You comment at your own risk.

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Views, thoughts or opinions expressed by the authors of the comments are their own and may not necessarily also be our views, thoughts or opinions.

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No links are allowed in the commenting area. You may mention another site, but an interested reader would have to Google it to get to it.

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You may fill in your website or blog or social site profile address in the details area when you leave a comment, but please leave this blank if you don’t have a site or blog or social site profile to link to, as putting something else in there causes a “broken link” on our site and we have to either manually delete whatever you put in there, or just delete your entire comment. If filling in this field in the comment form, remember to also use http:// in front of the address, for example if we wanted our name to link to our site tant.co.za if we commented on another site, for the website part of the commenting form we’d fill in http://tant.co.za

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Do not fill in your url if your site or blog or social site profile does not consist of family-friendly content.

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Note that we’d delete your url or your entire comment if at a later stage we discover it to be a broken link – for example if you later cancel your site or page you’re linking to – or if we discover that there is non-family-friendly content on your site or page.

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Comments are not private. If your comment appears we can see it and anyone else who visits that page can see it.

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Check off the little block beneath the commenting area if you would like to be notified via email whenever a new comment to that post has been published. You can unsubscribe at any time to stop being notified of new comments.

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Ways to avoid not having your comment appear or to avoid having it deleted by us:
watch your language, do not discriminate against anyone, don’t write derogatory remarks, and write family-friendly content only.

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Enjoy your commenting!

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