We want everyone to feel at home posting comments on The Paylogix Post. We don’t know what your home is like, but we know how we expect people to behave when they visit ours. That’s why we reserve the right to delete comments and ban users as needed to keep the comment threads here civil and substantive.

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Our No. 1 house rule is simple: Don’t be a jerk.

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Want to be the kind of commenter we’d love to bring home to mom? Here’s what we like to see in comments:

• Weigh in with smart, informed ideas that contribute further to the article or story.

• Give us useful, constructive criticism. Spot a typo or an error? Let us know and we will correct it.

• Demonstrate and share your experience, intelligence, wisdom, and humor we know you possess.

• Don’t feed the trolls. You know how you sometimes have to just ignore the crazy stuff that your Fater-in-law says for the sake of harmony and your own sanity? Same goes here. If comments are getting weird, please don't make it worse. Downvote and flag comments instead.

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Although we can’t be everywhere at once, here are some of the kinds of comments we’re going to do our best to curtail:

• Promoting your own brand, product, or blog. You may submit your press releases here.

• Impersonating authors or other commenters. We can’t believe we have to say this, but: Don’t do that. It’s weird.

• Comments that make it clear you didn’t read the article. Enraged that we didn’t mention X in a story about Y? Slow down, Speedy McFingerson. If you’d made it past paragraph two, you’d see a very well thought-out discussion of that X you hold so dear.

• Comments that are completely out of left field. Sometimes discussions veer off a bit, but are still related to the original subject. That is fine. Hijacking the conversation to promote off-topic commentary is not.

• Threats — no matter how vague — against the author or other commenters. Again, we can't believe that we need to say this.

• Racism, sexism, homophobia, you get the drift. Call us the PC Police, fine, but don’t say we didn’t warn you when you get banned or deleted. This also CLEARLY falls under the, "rule #1 don't be a jerk," policy stated above.

• Trolling. If you’re a climate denier just out for a good trolling and are not contributing meaningfully to the conversation, we’ll be pushing you back under the bridge, where you will likely drown from rising sea waters.