Salient

Salient Internet Policy

We want Salient to be the place on the net where you will always find lively, fun and, above all, intelligent discussions. The last thing the net needs is yet another site where any attempt at conversation is drowned out by a few people hurling mindless abuse at each other.

To make this happen, we will, very occasionally, remove some postings from our blog posts. We hope this doesn’t seem heavy-handed, and to be honest we don’t like doing it, but we believe it is the best way to keep the tone of Salient right for the vast majority of the people who visit.

Why would we remove a message? There are five guidelines we would like you to be aware of:

1. We discourage obscenity and mindless abuse. Personal attacks on other users have no place in an intelligent discussion.
2. We will not tolerate racism, sexism or homophobia.
3. We will remove any content that may put us in legal jeopardy, such as potentially libellous or defamatory postings, or which is posted in potential breach of copyright.
4. While we encourage a wide range of views, we will consider removing any content that other users might find extremely offensive or threatening.
5. Extremely long running discussions slow our systems down for everyone. When a discussion grows to be very large, we will issue a warning on the thread, suggesting discussion is restarted on a new thread. Shortly after this, the thread will be closed and/or deleted. Long discussions or messages will be removed at the editor’s discretion.