Commenting on Guatadopt

{I've moved this off the previous thread as I think it warrants its own post}
Your Guatadopt Hosts had a long discussion yesterday about anonymous posters and we we need to initiate a new policy. For various reasons that we need not defend, we will no longer approve comments where a valid e-mail address is not provided when you enter the comment. The e-mail addresses are NOT available to Guatadopt readers and we promise that we will not share them. But there are times when we need to e-mail posters and we can not do that if a valid e-mail address is not provided. For years we have run this site and have never been accused of a breach of confidentiality. If you are concerned about us having your normal e-mail address, just sign up for a free hotmail, yahoo, or g mail account and use a separate address for your Guatadopt posts. When posting a comment, you can put whatever you like in as a name (which is all that readers can see), it is only having an accurate e-mail address that we care about. If we email you and you do not respond, the post will be held (not published) or removed. Sorry for any inconvenience but it is something we feel strongly about based on a few recent attempts to reach commenters who did not use accurate e-mail addresses.

We have not been able to post several items because private or unsubstantiated information was being announced as "fact", information that we feel is private to particular adoptive families was included or their was another issue that we wanted to give the poster an opportunity to correct. I hope that all who have been involved in the passionate exchanges on our site see that we give all sides a chance to express opinions without fear of attack from our staff. We strive to protect the privacy of all posters on our site no matter their stance on adoptions. As we have very passionate arguments, we also ask that everyone keep a respectful tone and not attack someone's character (attacking their ideas is fine :-) Debate can be very educational and healthy but please take a breath before responding with anger.

Finally, we reserve the right to update our policy as we see fit which you can view by clicking on the question mark next to the comment link. Policy changes are intended to maintain the integrity of our site and our mission.