Question: Are comment or discussing policies really necessary for blogs?

There are many examples. Some longer and some shorter. You might want to get inspired and check out some new ideas.

Update: In addition to this post, we found an easy way to implement the policy into the comment form.

Comment Policies Examples

Evolution of Security

Outstanding and detailed example for a comment policy.

Tom Raftery’s Social Media

Too less - too unsecure?

The comment policies on this site are very straightforward. Legitimate comments will always be published unless they have profane or defamatory content, in which case I reserve the right to delete them without warning.

Alex King’s Policy

Please note: Use of a non-personal web site or blog in the field below and/or comments that are off-topic, personal attacks, or support requests will likely be removed at my discretion.

By commenting here you grant me a perpetual license to reproduce your words and submitted name/web site in attribution.

Themetamorph.com Policy

1) Abuse toward myself or any of this blog’s readers/commenters will not be tolerated, and since it’s my blog, I decide what is/is not abusive and will edit/delete accordingly.
2) This blog uses the Comment Timeout plugin to help fight spam, since spammers seem to enjoy leaving their crap on older posts. Feel free to contact me to discuss a post with closed comments.
3) I DO Follow.

Uncommon Descent

They decide in their policy between 3 types of commenters.

What do you think, are comment policies necessary?

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“Der Aufbau dieses Buches richtet sich nach den Bedürfnissen der Internetanbieter. Diese brauchen, um im Internet auftreten zu können,

• eine Kennung (dies verweist auf das Domainrecht),
• Inhalte (ein Tummelplatz für das Immaterialgüterrecht),
• Werbung und Marketing (hier kommen die Wettbewerbsrechtler zu Wort),
• den Kontakt zum Kunden (was zu Ausführungen zum Vertragsschluss und
• zum E-Commerce-Recht führt)
• sowie Daten der Kunden (hier kontrollieren die Experten des
• Datenschutzrechts).

Abschließend findet sich noch ein Abschnitt zu der Frage, wer für alle diese Rechtsanforderungen haftet. Schließlich wird auch noch auf das Problem der Vollstreckung von Gerichtsentscheidungen im Internet eingegangen. Gerade das Vollstreckungsrecht ist der archimedische Punkt der Internetdiskussion.”

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Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:

• To reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
• derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
• To distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
• To perform the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
• To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
• In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

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