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house rules on the blog bbc world have your say bbc world have your say contact us ros daily email tweets what s whys suggest a story house rules on the blog by ros atkins we thought it would be useful to explain what you can expect when you decide to contribute to the whys blog we always endeavour to stick to this and if we don t you have every right to pick us up if you have any more questions please email me what we consider when moderating a comment is the comment relevant to the discussion on the page where it s posted does it show respect for the other people posting on the page this is a post our editor mark wrote about blog courtesy is it a short and engaged contribution to a discussion here s a passionate debate we ve all had on this subject if the answer to those three questions is yes your comment is likely to published why are we so strict on the length of a comment when we talk to each other in day to day life we don t take turns to speak for five minutes and the same needs to apply on our blog and our show we ve stopped short of setting a word limit but the box where you write the comment isn t a bad guideline the reason we don t set a limit is that sometimes such as with personal stories relevant to a debate you may need to write more what we won t publish are comments that would work better on the op ed pages of a newspaper than on a blog when are the comments moderated and who does it there are around 30 bbc moderators any of those people can be moderating at any time so almost always your comment will be moderated very quickly after it s posted now and then at weekends and at night uk time it may take us a little longer we did have moderators from the whys community see the editor mark s post about why that experiment was stopped bbc editorial guidelines like everyone at bbc news we stick to the bbc s editorial guidelines they ll help you understand why we do what we do thanks last but not least it s worth saying that we are very grateful to everyone who chooses to contribute to whys share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading who s online from whys everything whys we re live at 1800gmt every weekday house rules on the blog house rules on the air meet the team facebook flickr youtube trips past and future where are you listening bbc world service news bbc global minds bbc news online bbc over to you rss feed october 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 mar blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed bbc world have your say join 252 other subscribers sign me up have a wordpress com account log in now privacy bbc world have your say copy shortlink view post in reader manage subscriptions sign up log in report this content collapse this bar d design a site like this with wordpress com get started