Online Comment Policy

The Los Angeles Loyolan is committed to disseminating the free flow of information to the LMU community. Our ultimate goal is the pursuit of truth without regard to special interest and with fairness to all.

Online Comment Policy
The Los Angeles Loyolan encourages all our readers to comment. Our goal is to maintain a community where everyone feels free to express themselves, but we also recognize that some conversations following articles on this site can descend into negative sniping and personal attacks. When this happens, we reserve the right to delete those comments which violate the policy described below.

We encourage comments that:
* Are "on topic", and that respond to the content in the article
* Are responses to comments left by other readers
* Are brief and to-the-point
* Have a positive/constructive tone
* Are open to being contradicted by other readers
* Might disagree with the content in the article, but they do not insult the writer of the article or other commenters


We discourage comments that:
* Are “off topic”, or are not responding to other comments or the content in the article
* Insult the writer of the article or other commenters
* Are excessively long or negative in tone


We will delete comments, without notice, that:
* Are fraudulent, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, offensive, pornographic, profane, sexually explicit or indecent
* Threaten, invite, or encourage violence
* Are derogatory of others on the basis of political affiliation, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference or disability
* Constitute or encourage conduct that would violate any local, state, national or international laws
* Violate, plagiarize or infringe the rights of third parties including, copyright, trademark, trade secret, confidentiality, contract, patent, or rights of privacy
* Contain advertising
* Are by commenters who misidentify or misrepresent themselves
* Contain personal information (addresses, phone numbers, etc) about the comment's author or others