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Here are our guidelines for participating in the comments section of Doha News. The number one rule is to be respectful.

Our goal is to educate, inform and stimulate positive conversation in the community. We also welcome alerts about typos, incorrect names, factual errors, and the like.

Audience

This site is intended for all ages.

Conduct

Commenters have the right to be presented with age-appropriate dialogue and treated with both common courtesy and respect. If you believe this right has been violated, please notify us at editor @dohanews.co.

Conversely, commenters are expected to interact with age-appropriate dialogue and to treat others with common courtesy and respect.

In simpler terms: Please don’t swear, make personal attacks, be racist, discriminatory or otherwise intolerant. Please don’t USE ALL CAPS, promote products, impersonate people, use inappropriate usernames or infringe others’ copyrights. And please stick to the topic of the post.

Moderation

Comments are not pre-moderated on Dohanews.co, and NOT all comments posted are reviewed by our editorial team. We do, however, reserve the right to edit, delete, suspend, or publish comment data solely at our discretion.

If we determine a comment to be offensive, inappropriate, or just plain annoying, we may delete them.

You have the right to vote up comments you like or vote down comments you dislike. If you come across a comment that you find egregiously offensive, click on the button “flag as inappropriate.”

Privacy

Comment data related to your real identity, such as name, URL, and email address will never be shared, bartered, or sold to third parties.

Anonymity

Commenters may comment anonymously. Real names are preferred. “Brand Names” and online personas are permitted.

Usage

Comment data is used for the express purpose of allowing visitors to participate in visible, public discussion on this site. We will also occasionally quote comments in posts, or use your data to get in touch with you, but that’s it.

License to Publish

Commenter grants site owner(s) a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and non-exclusive license to use comment data in any form of published work or performance including, but not limited to, websites, digital eBooks, print, audio, video, live and broadcast events.

Legal Indemnity

Commenters agree to “hold harmless” site owners and authors from any and all legal repercussions, damages, and liabilities perceived to have been caused by participating in this site’s online conversations.

Contact

If you have questions about this comment policy, please contact us on [email protected].

This policy is based on the Standard Comment Policy by 8BIT, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License, as well as community guidelines published by Boing Boing and Al Jazeera.