Speaking The Truth In Love: Writing Constructive Comments

Stan Shinn

Posted on April 30th, 2006

I’d love to have your comments on my articles. Here are some tips regarding constructive dialog when commenting. As Fr. Hopko cited in his article entitled “What Can We Do?“:

We can make our views known, and offer our suggestions about proper action, forcefully and firmly, without demonizing or ridiculing those who disagree with us, while cooperating courageously with those who do.

We can always remember that those who disagree with us are as strongly committed to their understanding of things as we are. source

We try to moderate the comments as best we can to prevent harsh language, graphic descriptions, and venomous content from tainting what we hope to be a helpful dialog. It is difficult, as this is a very emotional topic.

In general, a comment that demonizes another person who is also commenting (“You are..”, “You should…”, etc.) should be avoided. Also, please note the following guidelines:

Categories: Musings

Colophone: Styles Demo

Stan Shinn

Posted on March 7th, 2006

To style as a pull quote, you need to be in HTML mode and wrap your quote with a h2 heading with a class of “pullquote”, like so:

Your quote goes here

To add a special style to an ampersand, you need to be in HTML mode and wrap your ampersand with a span with a class of “amp”, like so:

Horizontal rules (hr tags) are automatically styled in Duet, and give a distinct visual break in your content

Alerts call attention to specific sections of your content. To style an alert, you need to be in HTML mode and wrap your content with a div with a class of “alert”, like so:

Your content here.

There is also a special green style for “success” alerts:

Your success message here.

To style as a classic caption, you need to be in HTML mode and wrap your content with a div with a class of “classic-caption”, like so:

A classic caption

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

Classic titles

To style as a classic title, you need to be in HTML mode and wrap your content with a div with a class of “classic-title”, like so:

title of something

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To style an asterisk at the end of a story, you need to be in HTML mode and wrap your asterisk with a span with a class of “story-end”, like so:

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Categories: Essays