"Hey, why did you delete my comment?"

It's a question we hear a lot on this side of the fence. While we ask everyone who signs up to comment on PennLive to adhere to our list of

, it's not always clear why a comment or thread gets removed.

In the interest of giving PennLive readers a place to vent and also provide greater transparency in how and why we police reader comments, we're setting up this little corner of the site to serve as an online complaint box.

If a comment you posted was removed and you don't understand why, you can ask us about it in the comments section below. We'll do our best to respond to your questions within one business day. And hopefully, the backlog of responses will provide a better picture of PennLive's comment moderation policy.

In the coming weeks, I'll be delving more into our individual policies and how we administer them. For now, though here's quick reminder/rundown of the rules: