Archive for the 'administration' Category
September 19th, 2006 - Comments thank you!
Thank you for the comments! Liz said that having to register was a bit of a hassle. I turned that on because without it, I got a LOT of spam comments. Maybe I’ll try it turned off again as the Akismet spam filter seems to be working very well of late. Can’t hurt to try for a day at least. The worst that will happen is 500 spam messages (yes, one day I had that many appear. And I had to change the radio button on every single one of them to delete them). But really, that’s not so horrible to face if the alternative is that that doesn’t happen but people comment more often instead.
September 18th, 2006 - Comments DO work
Loyal readers (if I actually have any other than my brother?), you can write comments. The box around the comment field doesn’t appear, but you can click inside and start typing. Bryony tested it for me last night so I know for sure it works!
I haven’t had any comments in ages except from Michael so I’m not sure if I’ve been boring or if no one is reading my posts anymore. Not sure which I’d prefer it to be….
July 12th, 2006 - Changing the look
My brother just uploaded some new themes for me (THANK YOU!!!). Throughout the day (or the week) I’ll be playing around with them, so don’t be worried if this site looks different every time you show up. Of course, if you use Bloglines or another aggregator, this is meaningless since you rarely see the site anyway.
May 23rd, 2006 - Nevermind on the comments
Turns out turning off comments only turns them off for future posts. So my past 250+ posts still have comment areas that can be spammed. So I turned them back on. The spam slowed down over the last couple hours so maybe it was just a brief thing…..
May 23rd, 2006 - Comments turned off
I’ve gotten over 25 spammed comments in the last 25 minutes, so I have turned off comments until we see if we can get a better spam filter. If you’d like to comment, please send me an email: p a u l u k o n @ y a h o o . c o m (sorry for the spaces….)
May 22nd, 2006 - Commenting
Effectve immediately, you must register and login in order to post comments. I had over 1300 spammed comments over the weekend… If you posted a legitimate one, please see if you can rewrite it. I did NOT look at all of them to make sure none were for real LOL I do appreciate and enjoy your comments!
October 16th, 2005 - Comments are Back
The blog has been upgraded, the default look is (hopefully) temporary, and we think the comments are somewhat safer, now.
Hopefully safer now. But there’s no arguing with a spam-bot.