We are a community website and report on many different issues, these can generate a lot of passion within the community. We have a duty to all of our users to provide a website with content that is impartial and balanced.   

For this reason every article, comment or forum post submitted to this site has to be checked by a Basingstoke-Now moderator before it is published on the site. We try to publish as many items as we can but unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that all items submitted will be published. Please read our Terms and conditions and our Privacy Policy, this will help ensure your item will be published.  

The fact that we moderate the content on this site does not mean we are against free speech.  We are keen to encourage lively and informed debate but at the same time we are equally keen to protect the users of this website and we need moderate all the content submitted to the site to ensure this. 

Users of the site can always complain about any article, comment or forum post they see on the website, either by using the "Report" button on each comment, or by emailing us stating the article or comment that they wish to complain about.