Note on comments
I’m taking my time to implement a new process for comments, studying the alternatives as well as collecting data on trolls and bots. So there won’t be a change today, although there probably will be one some time this week or next. I’m still not sure, so don’t worry about it for now.
But at the moment my leading candidate for the new comment process should be very easy for regular commenters here. Just fill in the information you’ve been using right along: username and email address, even if the email address is fake; as long as it’s the email address you’ve been using to comment here right along, there shouldn’t be any difficulty. Apparently I can grandfather all the previous commenters in and there won’t be a problem. Your very first comment under the new system will be held in moderation until it’s approved. That could take a few hours, but after that first comment you can comment as before and don’t have to register or go through the process again.
I will make an announcement prior to instituting the new policy and I’ll explain once more.
Sounds great, and I really hope it eases the burden on you of weeding out trolls.
Unwillin’ Barkis is willin’ to use whichever comment system seems best.
Bye bye “Can Do!” for good.
Count this NeoFan in!
neo, thanks very much for doing this, and, for that matter, for doing all you’ve been doing for all these years now. YOU ROCK!
Whatever you think is best. I’m all in.
Hopefully good to go
Whatever you decide on, I will do what you want.
Sheesh…you make one little tiny comment about ballet posts and boom!
I encourage you to adopt the process that creates the least work for you.
Waiting. . .
I agree with M J R You rock!!! And have for the many, many years I’ve been following
A zillion up-votes for Mongo’s 8:40 p.m. comment.
Can you hear me now?
I am not a bot. I am a human being.
I thought I made.it, oh well.
neo, am I considered an “old, established” commenter? On my behalf I will point out that
I am old (will turn 75 1/2 a week from today)
I have always believed in antidisestablihmentarianism
I’m not sure how often I spell my email correctly. I’ll spell it correctly here.
“What ever it is, I’m against it!”
It being
not the new comment method/procedure.
Haven’t commented much in the past year, but still check in every day.
Turned 80 yesterday … can I get back in?
“No Scotland No Party! No Scotland No Party!”
oops, sorry wrong thread.
That sounds like it would be a good solution. I don’t comment here as much as I did many years ago, but it’s always good to still have the option available.
More work for you, at least during the “introductory period,” but less in the long run and very much less than having to constantly moderate comments. And much easier on us than Discus.
Thanks.
When I worked in Maracaibo, Venezuela, I shared a staff house with two Scotsmen. They and their Scottish/Northern England friends were prodigious drinkers on their weeks off the rig. But dry when working.
Decades later, our grad school class gave presentations during for the final exam. The Dean of the school, who was from Scotland, attended. I pointed out to the Dean that I had worked in the oil field in Venezuelan with some Scotsmen.
“Bunch of drunks, weren’t they.”
Which meant that I wasn’t very surprised to find out that Scotsmen in Boston for the World Cup had drunk a bar entirely out of beer.
FOAF:
Old enough, and established enough. 🙂
Sounds totally painless Neo. Don’t run into that too often these days
Karmi:
I liberated your comment from quarantine in order to answer you.
First, Happy Birthday!
Second, the answer is “maybe.” I would need to take some time to review the history.
Karmi is on double secret probation!
And Happy Birthday!
@ Gringo > “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
For the record, I have never seen “Animal House,” but I sure seem to know a lot of the catchphrases. That’s the culture that politics is downstream of.
Re: “Animal House” — double secret probation
Jen Murray, reaction vlogger, is going the full “Futurama.” Here’s her reaction to the “Futurama” parody of “Animal House” titled “Mars University.”
–Jen Murray, “Futurama — S01E11 — Mars University”
https://youtu.be/ou38TCWxiCg?t=779
Quite fun, even if you haven’t seen “Animal House” or “Futurama.”