Everyone once in a while, it's a good idea to talk about what we consider the editorial standards at The Daily Gotham, in especially as far as posting and comments are concerned. It's my understanding that our friends at Room Eight [1] are currently wrestling with these same questions, and maybe this will be helpful to them as well.
As to posting, we encourage our readers to sign up and blog their own content. This site is read by many influentials in New York, and your content here will get noticed. Unless we know you, however, we're not going to immediately give you front-page privileges. That's just the way we do things. But by all means, give it a go. Specifically, I'd love - love! - more coverage of Queens, the Bronx, Westchester and Long Island. I'd also love, but that's a question of my personal taste, more gay, Jewish and black-themed content.
To comment on this site immediately, also, you need an account. If you don't have one, your comment needs to be manually approved. So if your anonymous comment does not appear immediately, it's not that us sellout tools of the system want to silence you, it's that we haven't gotten around to moderating it yet. We're sorry about that.
As far as content is concerned, and that goes for both posts and comments, we have some simple, basic, common-sense rules. Slander and libel will get you banned immediately, no questions asked. Same with anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, homophobia and general wingnuttery. Basic simple concept: if you would not feel comfortable saying something in someone's living room, don't say it here. Ad hominems, also, we generally frown upon, unless they're funny. You are full of shit isn't just unfunny, it's not even very original. The only added value to a comment like that is to confirm our suspicions that we don't need to take the person making it seriously.
So yes, we encourage your participation in and enjoyment of our little venture here. We don't promise much, but we will attempt to make your experience here pleasant or at least amusing; which is why we have these rules.
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