Our comments policy is pretty simple:

• No racist comments or racial slurs. [That includes: Jap, Nip, Chink, 毛唐, etc.]
• No insults towards countries/races/etc. For example, comments like “Korea sucks compared to Japan” or “Japan’s culture is fucked-up,” “Koreans are liars,” “Americans are idiots,” etc. If you want to express such a viewpoint, do it by posting something of substance, rather than taking a swipe at a nation/culture/person and writing nothing else. Referring to other users as “stupid” would also fall under this rule.
• No personal attacks on other posters in the comment threads. If you disagree with somebody, go after their argument instead of attacking the person who wrote it.
• No comments that are totally off topic. Example: Writing a comment about Koreans under a post that has nothing to do with Korea or writing a comment about Japanese dolphin hunting on a post about Korea-Japan relations.
• No excessive swearing.
• Keep worthless complaints to yourself. Few people want to read your comment about how “this post sucks” or your declaration of “who cares,” so such comments will be deleted.
• No spamming advertisements for your website. [ This includes pasting your site url into every comment you make, instead of entering it into the "URL" section of the comment form. ]
• No use of multiple names for the same user. [Sockpuppetry will result in almost immediate banning.]
• No comments about 9/11 conspiracy theories unless the post the comment is being left under is specifically about 9/11 conspiracy theories.
• No posting comments that are meant only to annoy other readers of the site. This also applies to the overuse of smartass argumentation methods.
• No comments in languages other than English or Japanese.
• Incredibly stupid comments that add nothing to discussion may also be deleted.
• Comments complaining about having a previous comment deleted are also not permitted. Contact us directly if you feel a comment has been unfairly deleted.

[Breaking any of these rules could result in your IP address being banned]

If you’ve made any comments that don’t fall under the list and your comments don’t show up or have disappeared, the spam filter may have eaten them up. I make an effort to check comments caught as spam and recover legitimate comments every few hours, so please be patient. If it’s been a while and you are wondering why your comment hasn’t appeared, please contact us at japanprobe [at] gmail.com