Comments we'll happily publish and ones we won't (and why)

We've published THOUSANDS of comments since we launched this blog. And we review EVERY SINGLE ONE first before deciding to share it with the world.

We do that for a few reasons:

1. We don't want people using swear words or talking about inappropriate stuff.
2. We don't want people being mean to each other - especially the person who's been brave enough to share a problem and ask a question.
3. We don't want anyone sharing too much personal info about themselves. For instance, we don't want to publish anyone's phone number or home address or email address.

But 99.9% of all the comments we get don't break any of those rules. And we are super amazed and grateful for the wonderful, kind, funny comments that you guys offer up every day.

Recently, we received a few comments we chose not to publish. One bunch came from someone who was pretending to be different characters in the Pink Locker Society books. It's excellent that you've read the books and know the details so well, but we'd like everyone who posts on this blog to be themselves. You don't have to give your name - Anonymous is fine - but we'd rather not have people pretending to be other people.

Another group of comments came from some girls who maybe didn't even realize they were being a little mean. We didn't publish those comments because they used what I call the "aggressive uhm."

What's that? When someone says "Uhm, or um or uh..." before the rest of their sentence and, by what follows, seem to want to the other person to feel stupid.

Here's an example:
Uhm, well for your problem you need to go to the doctor.

This just felt a little mean to us, so we deleted this comment.

Another one started like this...

Um, Annie, I have those allergies, too ...

Uhm + using another commenter's name = we won't publish it.

So stop the aggressive uhm and keep those wonderful kind, honest, and understanding comments coming!

Think pink!
Jemma