All Apologies
January 27th, 2007Hi Everyone,
I just want to apologize to those of you who left comments that were never published (until today). After moving over from Blogger to this domain we switched to Wordpress as our blogging platform. Spam protection in Wordpress unfortunately, is not as convenient as it is in Blogger. As a result, all spam and comments are sent to a moderation queue. Up until a few days ago, my brother had been moderating these comments, filtering out the advertisements for Viagra, etc. (and thanks for doing so!), but I noticed after taking over the queue that there were legitimate comments that slipped by. In particular I want to apologize to Hornet, Rick, Frankwolftown and Brian Peterson (yes, the Brian Peterson of Third Floor and Fireside fame!).
As far as I’m concerned, the only comments that shouldn’t appear are those that aren’t really comments, but spam. Otherwise, if somebody has something to say, it should go up. I hope that people didn’t get the impression that I actually judge what they say before approving it. I don’t and I don’t intend to. I just ask that you don’t use expletives. Or at least, that your ratio of expletives to normal words is less than 10%…Fortunately we haven’t had that problem.
While I’m at it, I might as well apologize to everybody who wrote comments that went up but weren’t approved until days later. That’s also unfortunate. I wish we don’t have to do the moderation thing, but WordPress doesn’t seem to be able to filter out spam automatically. If you have suggestions, shoot.
It’s tempting to go back to Blogger…
RS, Are the readers of the blog know that the word “Responses” at the top of the blog post is a link to make comment to the post. It seems to me that the readers are sending you comments via “Contact” page.
Posted January 28th, 2007 at 10:47 amYeah that’s a good point. The design doesn’t work in a lot of ways. That’s one of them.
Posted January 28th, 2007 at 2:40 pmYou may want to try another template. K2 seems to be working well for me, but I’ve just begun populating it. It lets you change things very easily.
Posted January 28th, 2007 at 9:59 pmHi Dona,
Posted January 31st, 2007 at 12:42 pmThanks for the suggestion. I’ll take a look at K2. I’m thinking we might just start from scratch though. We’ll see.