Rogers Park Review Editorial Policies

At this point in the evolution of the Rogers Park Review, we thought it might be a good idea to share some of the policies we have decided upon for this project. Rogers Park Review is a work in progress; we may refine and add to the list below over time, but we are prepared to stand by the following policies from now on:

• We will respect the anonymity of commenters.
• We will not recycle comments from RPR as new posts without explicit permission from the commenter.
• We will not recycle posts or comments (except for those we may have written ourselves) from other Rogers Park blogs without express permission of the blog administrator; however, we may on occasion link directly to other RP blogs in our posts and/or comments.
• We will not use the "comment moderator" function in Blogger for everyday posts.
• We will not, as administrators, remove comments after the fact unless the comment contains extreme hate language towards individuals or groups and/or threats of harm. In cases where we must remove such comments, an explanatory comment will be left for our readers so you know why we did it.
• We will not post letters received in our mailbox unless we receive explicit permission to do so.
• We will respect all requests for anonymity from persons who correspond with us through our mailbox.
• We will provide appropriate credits for any posts we do not write ourselves - if no such attribution is given, you may assume that whichever one of us posted it also wrote it.

The Aldermanic candidate forums that we have planned for later this year may include some additional and/or alternative "rules of engagement"; we will post those in advance as our planning process continues.

Thanks for reading.

Rebecca Rouilly and Gary Fuschi