Terms of Use: Blog Commenting at Planet Waves

Good Evening,

This is directed to anyone who uses the comment area in Daily Astrology & Adventure, or any other facility owned by Planet Waves, Inc. where it is possible to use an anonymous user ID or handle. We welcome and truly enjoy your participation here. And we do our best to maintain a safe psychic and intellectual environment.

As part of this, we recommend that every user operate under his or her real name and take all the risks of having your identity fully associated with your words and ideas.

By long-standing company guideline, readers are limited to one identity per area, such as one membership in this blogging community. Anyone found to have two or more identities will have those identities and all associated posts deleted, regardless of their content; and will be banned from purchasing our paid services, comp subscriptions, consulting, Q and A, etc.

Anyone who has been previously banned can have their account removed or placed in moderation without discussion if they reappear later under a different identity.

Through a decade of experience in Internet community organizing, we have found this is the most effective means of eliminating the practice of trolling or stalking discussion groups. The often related issue of having two identities is known as being a sockpuppet (an identity used for trolling). All Internet communities have their way of addressing this issue, some more assertive than others; this is what we have found is most effective and spiritually clean response. Independently of Wikipedia though in the same spirit, we reached the same policy on these matters that they have.

If one of our administrators notices two user identities associated with the same IP address, or some other pattern that indicates that one person is or was operating under two or more identities in the same area, that is considered trolling and handled as such.

If you are a member of this blogging community and live in a household where two or more people share a computer or an Internet connection, please notify us with an email to anatoly (at) planetwaves.net accounting for multiple identities at the same IP address. We will confirm receipt of that email and grant an exception.

As a condition of participation here, we may request communication with you at any time, by phone or by email; and we may request that you provide positive identification (such as a copy of your driver’s license or passport by fax). You do not have to comply, but we have the option to revoke your account if you do not.

Thank you kindly for your cooperation.

Yours & truly,

Eric Francis