Dawson News offers the blogging and commenting platform as a way to foster community discussion and give a voice to our Website visitors. We encourage visitors to participate, sharing their own views and opinions.

In order to present a site that is valued by a broad spectrum of the population which may include young visitors, users are expected to follow a high level of decorum. The site is not intended to be an "anything-goes" platform, and users who prefer to participate in a more wide-open environment may be invited to carry their debate elsewhere.

Keep in mind that thoughtful, well-constructed posts deliver value and benefit the online community.

On the other hand, accusatory postings, especially from anonymous users, do little to further the sense of community and may be deleted at any time without notification.

We will not edit your comments, but we reserve the right to delete any comments and media. Examples include but are not limited to postings that are:

• Damageable, injurious, defamatory and/or libelous toward persons or organizations.
• Obscene, vulgar, profane, abusive, bullying, harassing or threatening.
• Ethnically or religiously offensive; discriminatory; self-promotional or advertising.
Made to promote illegal or criminal acts; made to impersonate another person or entity.
• Made to "bump," are repetitive or otherwise disrupt service, or reintroduce topics previously deleted.
• Off-topic.

We do not review posts prior to posting, but want to hear from you if you feel guidelines are being violated. To report offensive or inappropriate comments, e-mail offensive@dawsonnews.com and include a link to the posting in question.

Bloggers are expected to provide and maintain working e-mail addresses to facilitate communication with the webmaster and the online community. Bloggers will be removed if they are inaccessible to communications from the webmaster.

The content posted from readers of dawsonnews.com does not necessarily represent the views of Dawson News or Morris Multimedia.

When posting events on calendars, do not post press releases. Calendar postings are limited to non-profit type sponsors and events. All others will be deleted. Repeated violators will be removed as registered users.

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