We, the birds, have recently encountered comments on our blog that, well, we aren’t so down with. While we are all for freedom of speech, we also seek to maintain a safer space with healthy and productive dialogues that will not alienate or offend. We also understand the internet is by no means a safe space, but hey, we’re trying.

So, in an effort to keep things as safe as birdly possible on this most open and public of forums, we have decided to monitor our comments. If we find your comment to be offensive, it will not be made public and will instead be replaced with this:

You are seeing this message because a comment was deleted. While we hope to facilitate healthy dialogue with a multitude of perspectives and opinions, we support the maintaining of a safer space for a discussion free of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other oppressions.

Let’s just be excellent to each other, huh?