There was an issue until today with comments; they were being caught by the spam filter after I tried out increasing the "aggressiveness" from 0 to +2 (on a scale of -10 to +10). I then failed to check for false-positives, until today after a blizzard of 100 or so spam comments that the filter still failed to stop. I should have realized that most real comments, with no links in them, get only a +1 score. I believe all the held up comments have now been published. I was beginning to wonder about the deafening silence on the redesign. Sorry about that!
JV has suggested that after posting a comment one should be redirected to the main page. I think for some situations this might be confusing, because you may not have come from the main page. It may also require writing a plugin or changing the source code of Movable Type. But given that JV is my best customer and probably responsible for over 50% of the comments that have ever been made here, I will definitely give it my all.
Comments (3)
heh, really dont sweat it as im certainly not - i only post the first thoughtless flippant thing that comes to mind.
January 10, 2008 9:26 PM
also, while i like the redesign i find the relegation of the "random rare word" to the lower right side bar kind of sad. it almost made it worth while to visit your site back when you were writing once a month. now its been pushed out of the way by the march of new daily posts, just as the "march of progress" so often marginalizes time spent in wistful meditation like when we used to wait for a webpage to load with a 28000 bps modem.
there can be a place for everything in this new blog of yours!
January 10, 2008 9:37 PM
How can I deny such a forceful and eloquent critique of both this blog redesign and of our time? It's easy to fix--the rare word takes up so little space it shouldn't be a problem to put it above the fold. I'll try to get to it this weekend.
January 11, 2008 11:27 PM