We want you to feel at home when you post a comment on The Good Hotwife. As well as we want everyone to feel at home posting comments on here. We don’t know what your home is like, but we know how we expect people to behave when they visit ours. That is why we will delete comments and ban users as needed to keep the comment threads here civil and substantive. Simply follow our Comment Policy rules.

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

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

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

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

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

• Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t dive into a debate with our ill-informed, weird uncle Gary just for the heck of it. And you definitely don’t feed him. (We are telling you, he is weird.) Downvote and flag the comment.

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 have a climate change solution that will simultaneously solve world poverty. Great. Open a Kickstarter page.

• Impersonating authors or other commenters. We can’t believe we have to say this, but: Don’t do that. It’s weird. You may find yourself banned as a result.

• Comments that make it clear you didn’t read the article. Slow down, Speedy McFingerson. If you’d made it past paragraph two, you’d see a very well thought-out discussion of that 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. Do not casually mention your foe’s home address, think of your Mother Earth. (Bonus points if you never use the phrase “Mother Earth.”)

• Racism, homophobia, you get the drift. You do not get a warning when you get tased. **And by tased, we mean banned or deleted. thegoodhotwife.com does not own a taser, we do however own a purple wand with several extensions. Be warned.

• Trolling. Finally, if you’re are just out for a good trolling and are not contributing meaningfully to the conversation, we’ll be pushing you back under the carpet, right next to Otto.