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I have turned on comment moderation temporarily, for test purposes.
Submitted comments will not appear until I have approved them. But please keep commenting, or it won't be a very good test!
Update: Test complete. Moderation has now been turned off again.
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Avast! Censorship? Egad? Phil, what happened? Don't tell me the Man's computer goon squad are after us? Understandable, though. Keep on bloggin', mate. Gotta go, GTO & ERT knockin' on the door! Cheers!
Posted by Adjustah on 26.07.05 at 20:15
Sort of reminds me of what it was like only having an electric kettle during Belco's blackout.
Whistle when your working again.
Posted by SmokingGun on 26.07.05 at 20:32
Phil...
It begs the question...how many comments do you reject?
At the end of the day - it's your site, and you must do what you must do.
I for one, however, am struggling to understand the need.
Posted by Martin on 26.07.05 at 21:46
"But please keep commenting, or it won't be a very good test!"
So approve them!
Well - as a test, it's 25 minutes since I posted and still nothing. (Maybe you have declined to accept them?).
Plus - no additional comments from others either.
Mmmmm - your site Phil, and I'm sure you have your reasons for this, but not good!!!
Posted by Martin on 26.07.05 at 22:20
Martin
TypeKey support is merely an addition to the current way of commenting, for the convenience of those who regularly comment on more than one TypeKey-enabled blog or who want more control over their personal information. As I said in the other post, you do not have to use it if you do not wish to do so.
Comment moderation, as I also explained, is not something I plan to have turned on all the time. I see it simply as a way to avoid having to completely switch commenting off when I go away on holiday. You can still comment, and if I can get online while I'm away, I can periodically authorise the comments to publish them (if the wife allows me to do so!).
I wasn't authorising comments earlier this evening because I was out.
Posted by Phil on 26.07.05 at 23:15
How do we get most trusted status so we can comment even when it is on?
Is it through good behaviour?
By the way, I have not forgotten about the champagne either. Will that improve my chances too?
;-)
Posted by jake on 27.07.05 at 09:51
jake
During the test I discovered that I can't actually whitelist trusted TypeKey commenters for when moderation is turned on. I can only blacklist untrusted commenters when it's turned off.
This seems backwards, as any blacklisted commenter who realises his comments are being held for moderation would just log out of TypeKey and comment normally. Whereas having the ability to whitelist commenters would be extremely useful. I've left a feature request with Typepad, but don't anticipate it being implemented any time soon (they're a bit slow about rolling out new features).
If and when it does happen, though, trusted status will be reserved for people I can be confident won't leave potentially libellous comments. In practice, that means it'll probably be restricted to people who are personally known to me and who I trust.
The odd bribe won't do any harm though. ;-)
Posted by Phil on 27.07.05 at 12:52
My 'Comments are always in moderation. yeah...hick..hick...
Posted by Terry-Toons on 27.07.05 at 13:07