Hi Everyone,

Here at Lending Central we’ve always believed in allowing all of our readers the freedom of speech.  After all, that’s what the nature of the internet and indeed the basis of stimulating discussion is all about.

However, some of the last “controversial” topics and our lack of hard-line moderation has resulted in some questionable commentary by our readers.  It is with regret that we now have to announce the following regulations will be enforced and comments will begin to be moderated.

1. Profanities - All comments that have any profane comments will be moderated and edited to be toned down for our readers so as to limit the offensive nature of them.
2. Derogatory comments - All comments that have any derogatory comments towards interviewed people will be removed.  Examples of this are: “XYZ, you are full of s$%t”, “XYZ, you are a d#@khead” and these will be removed.  Interviews are extremely important to get answers to the questions that you ask and derogatory comments do nothing to make people want to be interviewed.
3. Derogatory comments towards other readers - This is self explanatory and any comments that are aimed at other readers will be completely removed. Examples of this are: “Reader Name, you are a loser”, “Reader Name, you don’t know what you are talking about.” and these will be removed
4. Comments that do not add anything to the conversation or the topic and really fall into points 2 and 3 above will be removed.  The point of commenting is to stimulate discussion and new ideas amongst the industry.  Everyone has a point of view and if you don’t agree with it, then come up with reasons why rather than just being derogatory.
5. As an important note, points 2 and 3 (and to some extent, point 4) belong on something like YouTube, NOT on a professional industry news source.  Over 30% of our readers are NOT from within the industry and for general public to see bickering and arguing instead of support and interesting ideas does nothing for the reputation of the commenter, or our industry as a whole.  Please keep this in mind when you do comment.
6. Commenters who do add value to the articles - and reading the comments, this is 95% of you, I thank you for your insights and valuable contributions to making Lending Central as popular as it is today.
7. Please do not quote people’s names in your comments from third-party companies without prior written authorisation from said person.  Where we receive notification from the people that they do not wish to be mentioned, your post will be removed.

Thank you in advance for ensuring that you do adhere to the requirements set forth above.  If you have any questions, please let us know and drop me an email using the contact form at the top of menu.

Regards,

Scott.