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Comment Policy

1. Unlawful behavior, hate speech, bullying, promotions, spam, will result in an automatic ban and disabled users account with no warning.
2. Substantive, evidence based, well formulated discussion and disagreement are welcome. 
3. Sources: If you make a point please include a quality source to help the reader check the facts claimed. A quality source is one the adheres to high journalistic standards, including multiple independent source verification, and a clear distinction between factual reporting and editorial/opinion. All media is biased to one degree or another. It is impossible to avoid. Being aware of these biases and the issue of quality is important. Enlarge this fascinating media bias chart by ad fonts media.
4. Dismissing a point based on a source can be justified if it is an obviously poor source. However, I would prefer that a quality counter source is supplied to make a point and I endeavor to do this myself. 
5. Partisanship. I have been highly critical of the current and past administrations. Criticizing one side does not automatically equate to support for the other. 
6. An argument is a connected series of evidence-based statements to establish a definite proposition. This may form the basis of a hypothesis. These should then be tested against competing hypotheses. This is a dialectical process (debate) where differences are identified, mutual concessions made and joint resolutions are agreed upon (hypothesis, antithesis, synthesis). 
7. Unacceptable responses include
8. ‘What about’ ism. Example "Well what about [totally random unconnected propaganda with no evidence"]. That is not an answer to a well formulated proposition. Only an equally well formulated and explained proposition can be used as a counter. 
9. Ad hominem attacks - name calling, rudeness, all caps, attacks based on identity or assumed identity.
10. It is important to try and be aware of cognitive biases. We all do it. Awareness helps avoid it. 
    1. List of 50 Cognitive biases.
    2. List iof 30 logical fallacies.
    3. List of 15 common data fallacies.
    4. The ultimate list of 118 biases.
11. Cpntexr reserves the right to delete a contribution or ban anyone we believe is trolling, being rude, will not make a substantive counter argument or routinely ignores these basic guidelines.