COMMENT GUIDELINES
These are effective immediately
(UPDATED, 2/8/10)
Islanders Point Blank is a blog that hopefully generates passionate discussion in the Comments space. Our hope is to make sure the Comments area does not turn into a message board, or a place where a few readers believe it is their personal space to dominate and write blogs of their own.
1. Contribute something to the discussion at hand ONLY, not the discussion you want to start. If you’d like to start your own topic, please join one of the many outstanding message boards, including Islandermania.
2. Comments should be no longer than 100 words. Writing a post without anything resembling grammar or correct spelling sucks for you, the readers and the blog, so please make an effort.
3. Commenters are not allowed to dominate the space. No more than 3 Comments per story.
4. Get your facts straight. Write something as fact that’s not, the entire post will be deleted.
5. Saying to fellow readers “Are you dumb”? and “You’re a moron” is prohibited. Show some respect. Declaring who’s a real Islander or not on an Islanders blog doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
6. No profanity, no loopholes around profanity by putting in — and, even more offensive, no ALL CAPS.
7. If you would like discuss something found on Katie Strang’s Newsday blog, or compliment her for a story or scoop, please do so on Katie Strang’s Newsday blog. Katie deserves your audience and participation. Same for all the other Islanders blogs out there.
8. If you have a story or video clip you’d like me to see or consider for linking on the site, please email it to me. I link to hockey blogs often in my stories. Please do not use the Comments space to sell, trade or even give away tickets or anything else.
I thank you for your understanding, consideration and participation on the site…CB
Glad you did this - just sorry you had to.
I agree Chris. A short comment or two seems logical. Debates are best left to islandersmania. If I wanted read that website I would. I just want to see some short comments about articles to guage fan interest.
I know its hard to believe coming from me (since I have said stupid things and gotten at people here in the past) But this is a great idea CB. Lets keep this website a pleasure to read! I’ve cooled down, and a lot of other people who post here need to do the same!
Keep up the great work CB!
GO ISLES!
1) “lifetime misconduct penalties.” Something the NHL should consider for Sean Avery? ; )
at the next PB night, I plan to sit at the bar and reminisce about the good old days. if that’s okay with you, CB.
One word - RESPECT.
Chris,
Thanks for doing this, alot of passionate readers here were getting tired of some of the junk people were posting.
Respect the Blog Baby!
Good job. Lets keep this site rollin…
Wow, the Islanders were known for controlling the media and it looks like you are doing the same.
100 words, don’t link to other stories!
Pretty soon you will be charging $20 to read your blog!
Thanks CB. Keep the great stories coming.
i thought you were going to talk about the Ramones.
And to think I was just planning to start writing a novel on here..each post a chapter!..lol
Good job CB! Anyone sick of the phrase “surgically repaired hip”? Just a thought…
Well done. While the site remains a must read, the comments section was becoming unbearable.
Agreed w/Peter Puck, above. Unfortunate, but if you don’t like the new rules, then you’re probably one of the people they were created in response to and you just don’t get it, anyway. Keep up the great work, Chris, and thanks for what you do.
Great idea, CB. Thanks for all you do!!
THANK YOU!!!
thanks chris, the comments section was getting out of hand.
Thank You!!!!
Applause, applause, applause…well done Mr. Botta! Lets hope the tone here in the response section maintains a sense of decorum that you don’t get in other blogs such as Newsday. No need to get nasty with people just because they have different opinions.
hey chris, much respect for this move. there’s a few fans who seem to do this on every blog available (see: logan’s, gallof’s) not even to mention islandermania. it’s getting old.
Gabba Gabba Hey !
Rules are duly noted.
Stick to your guns.
Pat
Thoroughly agree. What you’re trying to omit is usually what keeps me from posting. Thanks CB.
Geez, and I thought Colin Campbell was harsh.
Thanks Chris,
At least we can read all the comments in a shorter amount of time. All respect to you.
Great Chris…some just want to inflate their own egos. It needed to be done.
Lets Go Islanders!!!
Good Job!
Even as a number one offender… I’m all for it. Sorry all. Great job Chris.
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15 words, 1 contraction.. I’m okay, right?
Thank you… there are enough diatribes by wanna be managers on the Newsday site and others like it. This will keep your comments site refreshing.
Thanx Chris. I spend more time reading the comments sometimes than the article itself, and occasionally it’s too much to keep me reading. Are you blogging about the Ramones too? I would read that everyday.
its ok w/me, i prefer to read short comments to get a feel on a topic anyways from islander nation, when a comment is longer then a blog, that is a problem I think. Thanks PB and keep up the great work!!
LETS GO ISLANDERS!!!!
CB, I agree the comments were becoming unreadable
Wow, if nothing else, this blog entry by Chris and the subsequent comments has manifested some antipathy towards those of us who comment on “The Newsday Blog”.
(These comments might even be in violation of Article 3 of Botta’s Rules-but that’s for Chris to determine).
C’mon folks, can’t we all just get along?
Afterall, We’re All Islanders, no?
Proudly wearing my “Newsday Commenter” label….from two time zones away.
I love the reference to the Ramones…very good stuff CB.
Yes, we can all get along… just do it in 100 words or less. You can rant on “HB.com” or something. Thx CB.
I view this issue with commenting–bearable, unbearable, or otherwise– as a good problem to have. It’s reflective of a passionate fan base that cares deeply about this team. Agreed, we all need to keep our commenting in check from time to time, but I’d rather have the passion than indifference or silence.
I am very glad you did this, Chris. I love your articles and what we say here should only compliment whatyou are already talking about!
Ill add this- since some of the people here who wrote very long posts have had a few valid points to make, they really should start their own blogs. There is room in this world for lots of points of view and discussion. If you have something to say, you should say it! (Just not in Chris Bottas comments section lol!)
Thank the Web Gods!!!
No Ramones..=)
Thank God.
CB< You never answered my question about the not taking a million dollars to divulge in a book about ur PR time with the Isles and potential trades..that is just a lie. There is no confidentiality agreement. CB, sorry Bro your not that big of a superstar and you can’t respond to that simple question.
I come on here to read YOUR blog, not to read fellas going back and forth. we’re all supposed to be on the same page here.
glad you set it straight.
I really do hope that people DON’T STOP commenting here because of this. I do enjoy reading other people’s opinions, no matter how lengthy. If done in good taste, shouldn’t this comments section be a conversation about the insight brought forth on the blog?
this might be evident to some, but if you just want to read the blog, READ THE BLOG… and move on.
CB, I’d think that you would be proud to have inspired so much conjecture. If there are space concerns, then I am totally out of line. But for those of us out of towners, and some in towners, it’s hard to find anybody else who even cares about this organization…nevermind takes the time to voice their opinions.
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Being that I’m probably going to get the boot (NO BLOG FOR YOU!!)… Happy Entrails Everybody.
Well done, C.B.
It had to be done. Certain people went….just a bit overboard.
if someone posts 40 words in one post… can they get 60 runover words to add to the next one? lol. just kidding.
I hear ya Captain! keep em’ short, sweet an to the point.
Nicely stated. Hope it helps. That’s one of the hard parts about running a Web forum: You really do need to set some friendly guidelines like these — and reinforce them from time to time — else people run loose like it’s, well, free!
Web anarchy has its place; just not where your host politely asks you take it elsewhere. Thanks again for providing this blog, Chris.
Thank God! I was not posting as much because it started to be a Circus with the same people over and over! Dont people have Jobs! Good Stuff CB
CB, with some tweaking you can limit character count and not allow HTML tags in your comments (for links) or even a string of text like ‘http’
This is probably the only site worth reading anyway…Keep up the awesome work.
Islandermania?
To the moderator, change the comments link under catagories to point to this story. Thanks for the rules update CB.
Not to go off topic, but…..
: )
I KNOW THIS IS OFF TOPIC, BUT, WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL CAPS?
(Sorry, couldn’t resist)
Love Point Blank. Die hard Isles fan who lives in NJ and visits your site daily. Ecellent Job.