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Comments that contain personal attacks about the post author or other commenters and/or organizations will be deleted. Feel free to challenge the ideas of those with whom you disagree, not the posters themselves. Please be respectful. Make sure your comments or postings are not harmful and do not ridicule another person. Comments do not reflect the views of the National Dairy Council or DMI; and we do not have any obligation to monitor, edit or review any comments and we assume NO responsibility or liability arising from the content of such comments on Twitter and Facebook. We reserve the right to remove comments that do not follow the rules stated in this policy.

Here are examples of the kinds of comments or posts that will usually be deleted:

• Comments that are completely off topic.
• Comments that contain offensive language.
• Multiple postings of the same comment on various post threads.
• Comments that contain personal information about others such as home addresses and personal phone numbers.
• Any form of trolling, defined as comments that appear intended to send the discussion in a fruitless direction.
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• Postings that promote products or services.

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Comment content that contains any of the above will be removed from the site. Further, off-topic comments, comments revealing personal information (i.e., place of residence, personal history) about users or other commenters will be removed from the site. We reserve the right to remove comments for any reason at any time.