All posts allow comments for three weeks. At that time, they close.
If you are going to troll, please be amusing and witty. Boring comments will be used for fisking. or removed. Abusive comments will be deleted, as will any comments that the author wishes me to remove.
If you comment does not appear one of three things have happened.
- You used certain words. I have a fairly long list of banned words in disqus: including all the abbreviations and variations of this.
- You have really annoyed me, and you are now banned. By address and IP.
- Your address and IP is in project honeypot: I double filter all incoming comments and one of the filters checks there.
- You break the rules of civilized discourse, and out civilians. See the updates.
If you want to contact me email pukeko60 [at] gmail [dot] com. Gmail has continually developing filters, and at times entire domains can be considered spam (yahoo being the biggest offender).
I do have my spam filters set quite high.
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Update Part I
I really should not need to say this, but in this time of FDA and other regulation of internet delivered psychiatry and advice. I better make this obvious. I am a psychiatrist by trade. I have a university role and a job in the local hospital system.
I do not have a private practice. This blog is a hobby. It is not a place where I will give advice: indeed some of my friends and links take positions that contradict me, and the standards of the college which I am obliged to follow.
If you need help, you have my sympathy, and prayers. But you need to find someone local, and a quick search of Google for the nearest mental health centre or university department of psychiatry is a good place to start.
Update Part II.
I link at times to people’s comments on the internet, and may talk in general about circumstances. But one of the rules we have to keep is protection of the civilians. This includes children, spouses, friends, people we see professionally — in short any person who would not want their thoughts spread by twitter to 4chan or worse.
Politicians, pundits and other public figures statements are fair game. But their families are not.
And, given local laws and standards, anything that looks remotely defamatory will be deleted.
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