Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Here is the Raven’s Roads policy on various things.

[Your Privacy] [Your Comments] [Linking]
[Copyright] [Feeds] [Paid Reviews]

23 November 2007

Raven’s Roads is run by Linda Raven Moore, which is a pen name. It is operated under the wing of Annwn Web Creations LLC, which is also owned by Linda Raven Moore, under her legal name. Anything PayPal will appear as Annwn Web Creations LLC.

Some of the names and locations in this blog may be changed to preserve privacy.

Your Privacy

• I do not sell your email address to others. Spammers! Bah! Ptui!
• If you order a copy of A Little Twist of Texas, I may send you a postcard or letter with promotions or announcements. If you don’t want me to, say so as you order, or contact me to be removed.
• I don’t sell your mailing address to others, either.
• You can unsubscribe from Raven’s Roads Update at any time by hitting reply and putting “unsubscribe raven’s roads” in the subject.
• Like every website in the known universe, Raven’s Roads maintains server logs which are used in aggregate form to determine traffic, patterns, and the like.
• Third party tracking in aggregate form only is in place on this website to determine its traffic, incoming links etc. It is used to determine the level of traffic which in turn determines which paid reviews I get to do here. Likewise, some paid posts have tracking images in them (it works a bit like a hit counter, so the advertiser can see how many page views the post got: in other words, you are not “followed” once you leave the site).

Your Comments

This is a conditional do-follow blog which uses the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin. This means that if you become a regular commenter, your links in comments will, after a certain (unrevealed) number of comments all count towards your Google/Technorati rating, but until that point they will not be do-follow.

Here is my policy re: comments.

• I run Akismet. Most all spam is sucked up by Akismet before it sees the light of day.
• All first-time commenters are moderated. Your first comment will not see the light of day until I figure out whether you are a real person or some figment of a spammer’s imagination. Don’t worry if you don’t see your comment appear and please don’t re-post. If you are legit then your comment will appear soon enough. :)
• I take a dim view of people who come here just to comment and get the link back. If I realize that is what you’re doing, I will delete all your comments and prevent you from commenting again. If you persist, I will report you to Akismet. Become a visitor because you like the site, not because I give no-follow links!
• I take an equally dim view of people who put a keyword in place of their user names. Such names will be replaced with either a real name, if I can find one on your blog, or a silly made-up name. Use your real name, your real nickname, or don’t post comments. You have been warned.
• Comments that have no bearing on the post at hand, or which are abusive, will be removed at my sole discretion. Likewise, comments which do not add any value to the conversation may be removed, depending on how well I know you and whether I think you’re commenting just to get a do follow link, etc.
• Seriously: if you’re here in good faith, you won’t have a problem.
• I try to reply to all comments. Sometimes, I bundle a few up into one post, especially if they are similar. Otherwise, I reply individually and you will get an email telling you what I said.
• You can subscribe to comments for a particular post by checking the checkbox, and manage your subscriptions from within that same post. If you subscribe, you won’t get duplicates. My two plugins (the one that replies to the specific comment and the subscription one) are supposed to play nicely together.

Linking

Raven’s Roads believes in linky goodness. Link to this site in your blogroll or links page, contact me to tell me where to find the link, and you can expect a link back.

Exceptions:

• Link farms
• Spam and porn sites (note that I do not consider a personal site that deals with sexuality to be porn.)
• Sites promoting illegal activities, warez, and hatred.
• Sites without character, that I simply cannot recommend. They rehash what other sites do, i.e. with no original content, or have nothing but memes, or are dedicated solely to making money without giving any useful information, or are purely commercial without a glimmer of personality.

If you are a biker, you might check out one of my biker blogrolls, too. For these, you need to add the code to your site, then come back to let me know so I can add you. Obviously, you need to meet the biker/biker lady criteria, too.

• Women Who Ride blogroll
• Blogging Bikers blogroll

Copyright

Product photographs in sponsored posts are copyright the company from whence they came. All other photographs are copyright Linda R. Moore unless otherwise noted.

All articles are copyright their respective author. All static pages and the Raven’s Roads site itself are copyright Linda R. Moore.

Link freely, but do not copy and paste to your own site unless you want to experience blonde biker wrath.

Do not link directly to graphics on this site! Exception: the biker blogroll graphics.

Feeds

Atom and RSS feeds are provided for your personal viewing pleasure only.

Anyone who attempts to steal the posts’ content or syndicate it to their own site without permission will experience the wrath that only a 5′3 tall blonde biker can produce.

Paid Reviews

I do paid reviews for a couple of web sites. All such posts are filed under the category, “Sponsored Posts.” Since I will not do jobs where disclosure is forbidden, I will always disclose within the post that it is a sponsored post, unless I have a bad day and forget, in which case you may certainly hit me with a nerf bat.

The jobs I pick have at least one of the following characteristics:

1. There is something about the product that appeals to me and which I think might appeal to you.
2. I can find a way to make it an interesting post in its own right.
3. I have some relationship with or experience of the product or service.
4. The product or service is about one of the topics I normally blog about.
5. The sponsor allows me to give an honest (not just buzz) review.