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The post I wrote back in March about the release of Doug Hodgkin (who was convicted of murder here in Oxford in the 1980s) had a few hundred fews that month, and after a couple of months quieted down to 30-50 views a month. Suddenly, in the last two days, it’s had almost 800 views, [...]  I make a concerted effort to allow open comments by people who respect a certain level of civility. In the last three weeks, though, I’ve for the first time not let through comments from new users where the comments seemed to push into what seemed inappropriate. The first involved speculation (which turned out to [...] I’m getting unpleasant and obnoxious emails from Bellesouth that go beyond disagreement about what’s been written on the blog, and I’m ready to go to sleep. So, rather than worry about what idiocy she may place in comments on my blog while I doze, I’m setting her to moderation. She can spew her bile [...] We’re still trying to deal with problems from the move changing hosts. As the comment to the left notes, my prior host, GoDaddy, retained data from all my backups, and I am about to embark on a war with them over that. Among the lost data was changes in my blogroll over the last [...] Things are inching back to regular, such as it is. some sort of SQL glitch seems to have eaten everything since early March, which I’n trying to fix. Meanwhile, I may be posting from a wedding in Lafayette, LA. Comments are back. … 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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A book a week
I don’t often make New Year’s resolutions, but this year I did– that I’d complete a book a week, comment on it on the blog, and make the readings a mix of fiction and non-fiction. I’m going to start posting and use these threads to give folks an opportunity to post about what they’re [...]