Comments flagged by readers that exhibit the following characteristics will be moderated by the public editor and then buried in the comments section:

• degrading or obscene with the intention to intimidate or harass.
• contain spam, lack any sort of structure, or have any sort of advertisement. A comment will also not contain a questionable link to another Web site.
• contain profanity or variations of profanity.

Comments that contain illegal or libelous content will be removed by the public editor.