A little cache problem
On my computer and phone there’s sometimes a little time lag in new posts or new comments showing up on the blog. Hope it isn’t happening that way for you, but if it is, I suggest you try clearing your cache. If that doesn’t work, try going to page 2 of the blog and then back to page one. Sometimes that does the trick.
For me, the problem occurs only on my cell phone and not on my laptop.
I’ve been compiling a list of these small glitches that are still occurring on the blog, and in a little while I plan to take them to the web developer and ask him to try to fix them. Till then, sorry for any inconvenience.
Been happening every day for me on my iPad but not on my laptop.
I have a bit of a cash-flow problem.
Welcome back.
I have a comment on the Pope post that seems to be caught in the net somewhere. When I try to repost it, the system says it’s a duplicate.
This used to happen on the old system too; I never found out what caused it.
Sometimes the comment shows up later; sometimes, not.
Actually it’s on the Church & Day Care Post
Aesopfan: That has happened to me at other sites occasionally to where I would edit the post enough to not be a duplicate and repost it.
A blogging anomaly.
Ed – thanks.
Neo – I added some bolding and it still didn’t go through. Then split it into two sections (because, two links) and still nothing.
Then reversed the two sections and the new “Example #1” went through (Steven Crowder and Antifa) but not the new “Example #2” ( McCain and the POW cover-up) until after I removed the URL.
Something in the moderation will not pass links to a certain website even with creative respellings. It can be deduced from the name of the publisher in the (finally) posted comment. If you have banned that site, that’s your prerogative, but I thought it was curious, in the current context of Big Tech Is Watching You.
This has nothing to do with the cache problem, but in digging around on the website-that-must-not-be-linked, I clicked on a story with the intriguing title lifted from Robert Graves’s very-most-interesting memoir, “Goodbye to All That,” which was on the ubiquity of surveillance in the modern world, and the destruction of privacy, written by a private investigator who is torn between love and loathing for the tech that makes her job easier (sort of).
I think you would like it.
I’m also testing if the URL goes through.
http://www.unz.com/article/goodbye-to-all-that/
Well – most of the moderated comments made it through – multiple times!
I’m still curious about why they went into moderation in the first place.
AesopFan:
They only made it through because you alerted me to the problem and I liberated them from the spam folder. I have no idea why they were there in the first place.
An algorithm, of course.
Neo said
“For me, the problem occurs only on my cell phone and not on my laptop.”
If you using iPhone there is small work to clear iPhone cache
Hold the Power Button until you get shutdown on top.
now, push hold the “HOME” button until go back to icons screen again
now iPhone cache cleared
AesopFan:
They only made it through because you alerted me to the problem and I liberated them from the spam folder. I have no idea why they were there in the first place.
An algorithm, of course.
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I will borrow a thought from the algorithm comment thread:
Snow on Pine on August 31, 2018 at 8:33 pm at 8:33 pm said:
To actually comment on the original point.
When the programs get so complex that a human–no matter how well educated and intelligent–can’t hold it in his mind, comprehend it, understand how it will work, what it’s capabilities truly are, and what it will, in the end, produce, we are already lost.
My impression is that we are already at the threshold–or perhaps beyond–of this happening.
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Does your web admin publish anything about what triggers the Moderator?
(It wouldn’t, perchance, be named HAL, would it?)
Since this is kind of a loose thread (heh), I may experiment a bit.
Let me know if you want me to stop.
(My once-upon-a-time day job sometimes included debugging, um, algorithms.)
Found this on the post Neo linked today; will see if it goes through unaltered, as it links the “suspect website” and names the “suspect author”.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2017/07/21/heroes-military-and-otherwise-the-case-of-john-mccain/#comment-2235350
roo_ster on July 21, 2017 at 8:12 pm at 8:12 pm said:
I used to be a McCain fan, but it has been a long time since my regard for him has withered. As for his service in uniform, I think it is to his credit, up to a point. That point being nepotism used to further his career while in uniform. Not impressive. And, of course, the nature of his service is not unquestioned:
http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-when-tokyo-rose-ran-for-president/
Also, Sydney Schanberg wrote quite a bit on McCain’s not-enviable actions during the MIA POW controversies:
http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-legacy-of-sydney-schanberg/
So, yeah, not a fan for some time of McCain in any capacity.
Okay – so far so good.