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Aaaaarg! (Postingness troubles)

Hello, all! Just thought I'd add something to my "instructions on posting" I put up here a while back. 'Tis has to do with the ability to comment on posts.

At the bottom of the text window that you type your post in, there's a little option entitled "Allow New Comments on This Post". There are three options (sometimes just two, Yes and No): "Yes", "No", and "No, and hide existing comments". As default, it is set to "No" or "No, and hide existing comments". THIS IS NOT GOOD. Please, please remember to change it to "Yes" before publishing your post, or else no one can comment on it! Admins (such as myself) can go back to each post and change the options to "yes", but it would make it so much easier on us if it were checked in the first place.


Another, more minor thing having to do with comments is the new feature I added to the comments -- the "word-verification" screening. This is simply so that the website doesn't think you're a spam bot. I turned this feature on because, since about Tuesday, there's been a lot of irrelevant, anonymous comments, all of which telling us to go to some-site-or-another (in essence, spam). Most of these comments aren't made by individuals, they're made by spam bots -- so the screening should help cut back on all the rubbish.


Thanks for ye're time (if you bothered reading this far)! I'm going to go post some other stuff that's been floating around in the back of my head for a while. :-)

-- Laura W.

posted by Laura Webb @ 9/15/2005 04:09:00 PM