No Ads. No Spam. Period. Avoid self-referral and the "hey look at my website" comments unless it actually applies to the current topic.

Make Sense. Use the preview pane to read your own words. Do you make sense? If you can't figure out your own argument, then there might be a problem.

No Personal Attacks. Attack the writing, not the writer. Avoid anything personal. Don't out somebody as [fill in blank here] just for the sake of advancing your position.

A violation of the above three guidelines will result in the comment being deleted from the site. What follows below may not get you deleted (but it might) and is more about honor and etiquette.

Advanced Guidelines

Imagine, if you will, that comments on Exit133 are the equivalent of meeting new friends for coffee or a beer and somebody starts an interesting discussion. You join in. Everybody has fun and the evening feels good.

Advance the Conversation. Comments should be viewed as a conversation between real people. It shouldn't feel random. As we, the readers, scroll down the page the discussion should be progressing toward somewhere.

Assume Community. Nearly everybody that comes to Exit133 has some sort of interest in Tacoma and where Tacoma is going. Respect others. Any comment that would get you slapped, punched, or kicked out of a drinking establishment may jeopardize your ability to comment in the future.

Have fun. Exit133.com's commenting system was opened up to you to further the debate in Tacoma. But it's also about having fun. If the article authors spend too much time deleting posts and keeping comments on track, fun is not being had. If it's no longer fun, comments may go away.

The author reserves the right to delete comments without warning, but may ask the contributor to reconsider their remarks before the comment is deleted and/or the contributor is blocked from the site.