Here is PJ's first sentence of the Policy:
Groklaw is a
noncommercial site. It's my home on
the internet, and just like if I invited
you to my home, I'd
appreciate it if you helped keep it clean, tidy and a
friendly place to visit.
Here is the third
paragraph:
We don't need hatefulness, or crudity, or venom.
The
truth is enough.
Here is the paragraph from which you quoted
one line:
So, no defamation. No threats. No profanity. No
pretending you don't work for a company being discussed, if
you do. Be honest,
please, and participate as who you are.
No unsupported insults/allegations. No
legal advice, no
false statements of fact, please. No comment spam. Humor
is
okay, within reason, but this a working site, not a playpen.
We are trying
to avoid distractions. If you just want to
hang out and act silly, please do so
-- but somewhere else.
Puns and other word play and parody are not
silly and are
always welcome. I had to add that. If Groklaw got too
serious, it'd be hard to do it day in and day out. Please
remember that
Groklaw has a purpose that I believe is
serious and important, and many
lawyers, judges, and CEOs
read Groklaw, and I want them to feel comfortable
here and
to be undistracted from our purpose in inviting them
here.
I put your quote in bold, and called out some other parts
in
italics. And lastly:
No foul language or links to porn or
other such
things. That includes initials and ****s.
I have
never found it necessary to discuss that part of my
body with anyone but my
doctor, and that infrequently.
I'm sure that kind of comment would go
unnoticed in all
sorts of places. But PJ has worked hard to keep this place
professional, and as a result, has drawn in all sorts of
people, from those
who designed the Internet, wrote the
utilities, set and implemented the
standards to attorneys on
all sides to judges to corporate types to ... you
name it.
Groklaw is archived at the Library of Congress.
The conversation
started out with aliens, switched to the
iPad Maps app, then the planet Uranus,
then plunged down the
toilet with a joke commonly found funny by arrested
adolescents. There was no reason to go there. It was
gratuitous obscenity. As
some people say, it is too much
sharing - I don't want to know.
Meanwhile,
as this is a working site, perhaps you'd like to
pitch in on some of the work?
The Comes v. MS project still
has a lot of unclaimed pdf to transcribe to
Geeklog HTML.
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