Policies

This page simply exists so that, if anything were to change, it can be noted here for clarity.

Infinite Lives is written and maintained by Jenn Frank. We also feature periodic blogs and retrospectives by our guest writer, Kevin Bunch. Our editorial direction is increasingly fluid.

Comments and Community

If this is your first time leaving a comment, only your first comment is held for review. Commenting requires that you leave your email address—we cannot promise that you won’t receive unsolicited spam about the Secret Newsgroup, but it will be used for no other purpose.

Approved comments no longer appear immediately, apparently, as the website is cached.

This site supports gravatars and OpenIDs. You may also format your comments using Textile markup language, if you’d like.

Because this site is powered by WordPress, emoticons are also supported.

We recently implemented threaded comments! We’re not sure we like them yet. By all means, please experiment with them.

As yet, there is no enforceable commenting policy. Our readership is small and friendly and not scary. If that were to change, the new policy will be noted here. Thus far, however, comment deletion has been discretionary as per our prejudices. Bans are by IP.

Advertising

No, we know. But this is starting to get a little more expensive than we remembered. We’ve long contemplated running ads (see A Note About Ads), eventually succumbed to financial crisis, and are now experimenting with 2 targeted text ads, one square of Project Wonderful ad space, and shoutouts to our pals at GelaSkins and Shanalogic.

Editorial Transparency

Blog entries have been edited or deleted without warning or reason. Should this site publish guest blogs in the future, this policy will also change.

Now that our site’s writing is accountable to more than one person, blogs will not be deleted. We will draw your attention to most edits.