The South Tyneside Independents encourage debate and welcome your comments, both positive and negative. But before making a comment please read our comment moderation policy below.

Please note that our comment moderation policy is intended to ensure that comment and debate is respectful of others and will not be used to suppress legitimate comments on the issues raised.

All comments, pingbacks and trackbacks are moderated before being published on the site. We will attempt to approve comments as quickly as possible.  If you have left a comment and it does not appear in a reasonable time period, and you are confident it has not violated our comment moderation policy, please contact us. We have automatic comment spam catchers so your comment may have been incorrectly labeled as spam.

We reserve the right to edit, move or delete comments which fall within the following categories: offensive or inappropriate language, failure to respect fellow commenter’s, links returning errors, irrelevant links, invalid email addresses, or comments not contributing to the conversation.

Anyone who violates the comment moderation policy may be blocked from making future comments.

While email addresses are required for commenting, they are not published on the blog, nor are they shared. They may be used by the blog administrator or post author to privately contact the commenter. When subscribing to a comment, you will not be subscribed to a mailing list.

The post author may / may not respond to comments and may / may not respond privately to you via email or another communication method.

All rights reserved: South Tyneside Independents, the blog administrators, authors, contributors, and editors reserve the right to edit, delete, move, or mark as spam any and all comments.

All comments within this blog are the responsibility of the commenter and not the South Tyneside Independents, blog administrators, authors, contributors or editors.

By submitting a comment on our blog, you agree that the comment content is your own, and to hold the South Tyneside Independents, and all  representatives harmless from any and all repercussions, damages, or liability.

From time to time, this Comment Moderation Policy may be updated, so please make sure to check this page periodically.

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