The Mag commenting section – Some advice ahead of Liverpool v Newcastle United at Wembley | OneFootball

A little bit of advice regarding The Mag commenting section ahead of this match at Wembley.

Liverpool v Newcastle United on Sunday, kicking off at 4.30pm.

Newcastle United fans hoping for a positive outcome and the end to their ‘little’ wait for silverware.

Talking of positive outcomes…

On such a weekend, ahead of such a big match, the last we want to be doing is banning any Newcastle United fans from The Mag commenting section.

So we thought we would give a few tips, a few reminders, on how to stay within the commenting rules.

Health debate vs being abusive

Healthy debate is great.

Disagreeing with somebody else is fine, whether it is whoever wrote the article, or somebody else on the comments section.

Pointing out why you think what they said is wrong, why you disagree with them, all fine.

Personal abuse aimed at another person is not.

Bottom line is just be respectful to everybody else, whether it is other fans commenting, those who write the articles, as well as ourselves here at The Mag.

The Mag commenting policy can be visited HERE, but here are a few other pointers.

Banned words

If you are desperate to use a banned word, please don’t try to get around it by using accents on words, symbols, spacing letters of a word and so on. If you insist on doing this you will get banned, sooner or later.

So for example, don’t be using symbols like this – th@t, and don’t be going like t h a t.

Links to videos, other websites etc

Please don’t try and put links to videos or other websites or whatever. For obvious reasons this is not allowed.

Liverpool specific

You might think poverty shaming is funny but we don’t.

We don’t think ‘bin dippers’ is acceptable, so please don’t use it.

A use of words that basically is a reference to needing to look in bins for something to eat, isn’t hilarious, especially when like pretty much every major football club now, outside St James’ Park there are collections for the local food bank.

Virgil van Dijk.

He is called Virgil van Dijk and not Virgil van Dyke, nor is he Dick van Dyke.

The banned words filter on Disqus will automatically stop a comment going up, if a banned word is used. Amongst the Disqus banned words are those that have an alternative sexual meaning. So Virgil van Dyke would fail for one reason (word), Dick van Dyke for two reasons (words).