Please keep your comments clean and on-topic. Comments posted with the intent of instigating a negative response will be marked as troll comments and moved to the troll thread for that article. Repeat offenders may be permanently relegated to the troll threads. All users can flag comments for review if they feel a post qualifies as spam, is offensive, or is a troll comment. Admins will review the flags and deal with the comments accordingly.
HTML is allowed in your comments. MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE YOUR TAGS! Here are some common tags:
All URLs will automatically generate an html link if they start with 'http:' or 'www'. Each comment is limited to 5 URLs per post to prevent spamming. If you would like to enter a very long URL, please go back and edit the comment after it is posted, and reduce the displayed text for the link. For example:
<a href="http://www.verylonglink.com" target="_blank">http://www.verylonglink.com</a>Can be changed to:
<a href="http://www.verylonglink.com" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>This will make it so the comment only displays the words 'CLICK HERE' in stead of the whole URL. Some browsers have trouble wrapping the huge URLs and push the boxes to the right to accomodate the link. Please help us keep the pages uniform.
The automatic linking only works on new comments, so once you've posted a comment you may edit the link (or add new html links) without this feature.
At this time image tags are allowed in the comment space, so long as there isn't any abuse of this.
To include an externally linked image:
<img src="http://yourwebsite.com/yourimage.jpg" alt="image name" />
Please limit image sizes to 100k or less, and less than 500 pixels wide.
If you have any suggestions or comments on the comment space, please email design@richarddawkins.net.
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