NMissCommentor

About 8 in the morning on March 9th last year, I did a test post that was the first post on this blog (titled “Nobody here but us chickens“).  Kingfish made the first comment (other than a test from me) mid-afternoon, and my daughter shortly thereafter commented in French.  I hope that I startled her [...]

… expect posting to be light.

I’ve added two features to the blog:

A mobile version that is all text and automatically comes up on your mobile phone.  You get the headlines and can click to view text of the posts and comments.  It’s fast and easy to read on an iPhone.
A button that allows you to create twitter feed from blog [...]

Comments from fake email addresses are deleted.  I spot-check email addresses, which is a nuisance, and delete comments from anyone where the test email bounces.
For some reason, the Medicaid fraud thread has produced several barrages of repeat comments from fake email addresses.  At least one had actual content to the comment, and I would have [...]

The only time that comments should be held in moderation is the first time.  Occasionally, the software “holds” a comment from an existing user; when I notice that, I just let it through.  That’s abnormal and it is not something I cause to happen; don’t take it personally.
On the other hand, new user’s posts are [...]

As I’m sure a couple or more of you have noticed, the search function hasn’t really been working.  I just spent a few minutes figuring out why, and it’s the “advanced” search function.  It seems that with the plug-in I’m using, if you click the buttons that allow users to search in tags and categories, [...]

I have figured out the problem with the loss of the search widget in the left hand column, and fixed it.  If you click “advanced” you can search in tags and categories.   And thus if you are trying to remember the name of that blues band from Tupelo I blogged about, put “Tupelo” in the [...]

I’ve been thinking about adding a new rule to the commenting guidelines, but then went back and re-read the existing guidelines, and decided (following as my precedent Griwsold v. Connecticut) that the rule I wish to declare is certainly suggested or implied (or something) by the existing guidelines. And so I’m going to announce [...]

You can do either in a bathrobe (although in my case, today, it’s dressed to go to the gym).

You are often allowed to participate with no proven expertise (although certain legal commentators beloved of Jackson area newspapers suggest that this principle holds for print journalism, too).

And so, at 2:00 PM, on Mississippi Public Radio’s A [...]

So, I spent the last half hour doing combat with spurious comments instead of blogging.  Not fun, and produces nothing for you guys.
If you want to give me suggestions what to add to the commenting guidelines to discourage another outbreak, I’d apreciate the suggestions.