---
title: 'New Editorial Policy'
date: '2006-07-14T09:36:00-04:00'
permalink: /new-editorial-policy/
tags:
    - blogging
---

Hey: this site is not [your](/the-new-new-york-times-book-review//) own personal publicity organ. Any future comments that are clearly serving no other purpose than promoting your work–not contributing to a conversation, not responding to a post or comment–will be considered spam and will be deleted forthwith. Moreover, I will close comments on any posts that seem to generate such comments.

This is *my* blog. ‘Kay? Thanks.

\[Note: this post probably makes little sense, as I’ve already deleted the offending comment. But an official announcement of this policy seems appropriate.\]

\[UPDATE, 10.14am: In fact, I’ve just instituted an automatic comment-closing procedure. Should you find yourself wanting to comment on an older post, but the system won’t allow you to, you could always email me instead.\]