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January 11, 2006
ARSING BLOG
Clearly I don’t know as much about stuff as I like to think I do.
Late last year I updated AWVC’s blog software, thinking that it’d help, even though it was working just fine already. This was fine and super, until I realised that the new, improved blog software was about fifteen times as crap as the old, reliable software at blocking spam.
This really rankles because of my recent engagement announcement. I’d thought people hadn’t said ‘Huzzah!’ on the blog because they were all congratulating me in person; instead, it was because any genuine person leaving a comment was told that their comment was in moderation and that I’d be reviewing it shortly. Except, of course, I wouldn’t be, because I had no idea that was how it was set up. Or that, if I didn’t look at it before ten days passed, it’d be deleted. TEN DAYS. I was away from the internet for far longer than that over Christmas, it turned out.
So, internet, I’m sorry. If you left a comment recently and got a promise that I’d look at the comment soon, that was my blog lying to you on my behalf. It has been chastised. Please, please don’t think your comment didn’t appear because I thought it wasn’t worthy. I love all my (human) commenters dearly. I did manage to save two of the comments by pure luck, and not because they passed some imaginary stringent criteria I’d newly laid down.
I’ve installed one of those captcha doohickeys that ask you to type a number from a picture before your comment will be accepted - hopefully that’ll stop the spam robots and let the real people in. Please excuse the extra aggravation.
Posted by Oliver at January 11, 2006 10:25 PM
Comments
Ok, now will this thing let me say congratulations?
Posted by: Siobh at January 16, 2006 06:55 PM
Yay! Huzzah then!
Posted by: Siobh at January 16, 2006 06:57 PM
(Yes, I know I congratulated you & your sweetheart ages ago already, but just to be public with my delight!)
Posted by: Siobh at January 16, 2006 06:59 PM
Thank you!
Posted by: Oliver at January 17, 2006 11:56 PM
Very entertaining issue. I haven’t heard of this one. It will be necessary to visit you on a thicket!
Posted by: История Египта at March 18, 2007 09:20 AM
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