LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND. TUESDAY, MAY 3rd, 2005: Liverpool's fans on the Spion Kop cheer their side on against Chelsea during the UEFA Champions League Semi Final 2nd Leg at Anfield. (Pic by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)

Comment Policy and Guidelines

Last updated: 7th November, 2022

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Comment Moderation and Removal

We’ve established these guidelines to protect you and This Is Anfield from legal and editorial risks. These are intended as a guide to how you should behave and post on thisisanfield.com. Breach of these terms of use will result in the removal of your messages. Repeated breaches will result in the restriction of your IP address from This Is Anfield.

Posting personal or offensive comments about individual commenters or writers may be considered harassment. We reserve the right to remove such messages and take action against those responsible.

We reserve the right to remove messages which:

Advertise a product

Advertising or promoting products or websites is not allowed on our comments. This may include links to:

– Personal websites or forums
– Surveys and questionnaires
– Commercial websites or auction sites that mainly exist to sell products

Risk breaching copyright law

Copyright law exists to stop someone from taking another person’s work and passing it off as their own. It applies to the internet in the same way as it does to TV, books and the press. Breaking copyright law can result in being taken to court.

Please do not post large chunks of text copied from other sources as this may be an infringement of copyright. Short quotes to illustrate a point may be permissible, although this is at our discretion.

If you wish to refer to external sources of information, it’s better to include a link to an appropriate external website. However, make sure that all external links included in postings meet our editorial guidelines for external links.

Are not in English

Contributions which are not in English are not allowed, this is because we have to ensure comments can be checked and to ensure that all readers of the blogs understand the comment.

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Risk breaking UK law

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Contain potentially defamatory statements

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To avoid breaking defamation laws in your comments, please ensure that you verify the information in your posting, especially when presenting negative statements as facts. Also avoid jumping to conclusions, exaggerating or making subtle implications. Remember that adding the word ‘allegedly’ to a statement does not stop it being defamation.

Are abusive or disruptive

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– Bumping or creating duplicate threads, posting in such a way as to cause technical errors, or any other attempts to disrupt the normal flow of conversation.
– Users who seriously or repeatedly demonstrate such behaviour may have their accounts pre-moderated or permanently restricted and will not be allowed to return.

Are offensive

Comments that contain offensive content are not allowed. Racist, sexist, homophobic, disablist, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable material will be removed and if extreme will result in immediate and permanent restriction of your account.

Are off-topic

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Please do not contribute off-topic material in subject-specific blogs, except where a blog has designated open post. If your comment has been removed for being off-topic, you may be able to resubmit your comment in a more relevant topic area.


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First published: 23rd June, 2013