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A Troll.
Trolls have shown up. Now, you need to have an approved comment to keep commenting. If you have have been commenting but only since I turned that feature off a couple of weeks ago, you may not be approved (I have no idea, we’ll see.)

If you are a troll, you know who you are and your comment has been deleted. If you are someone who has been commenting and you think I don’t like you an am repressing you, you are merely being delusional. Just make your comment and I’ll approve it as soon as I can. I’m checking the comment bin frequently. I am not repressing you at this time. I may repress you later, though.

For the rest of you (normal people who are not trolls), sorry for the inconvenience.

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21 thoughts on “Commenting

  1. Well I don’t believe I was approved, but I did comment (e.g. on the HMS Rattlesnake), so here’s a test comment for you.

  2. My test seems to have worked. On the topic of comments, do you know why you don’t have threaded comments (i.e. a Reply link after each comment), but some FTB blogs (such as Camels with Hammers) do?

  3. Threaded commments are optional. I had them for a while but I didnt’ like them. Did you like them? Maybe I needed to have them set at only one level deep/

    1. OK, we’ll see how this goes. Apparently, “one level deep” is un-nested (makes sense) and two level deep is what we’ve got now.

      The ability to subscribe to a comment you made (as opposed to all of them) is a real selling point .

      What I really want is for the dashboard to have a list of posts I’ve commented on (or something), so I could check on them without having to get a ton of emails.

      That would be cool.

  4. In my opinion, it does make posts with a lot of comments easier to deal with. For example I can subscribe for email notifications of direct replies to my comment, instead of all the comments on the whole post; and it can be easier to see which other comments are relevant. But it’s not a big deal, so if you don’t like them, that’s fine.

    What I really want is for the dashboard to have a list of posts I’ve commented on (or something), so I could check on them without having to get a ton of emails.

  5. I’m not against registration, and concede that it’s a good way to keep away the idiots, especially in light of what should be termed criminal behaviour (re: the abuse of skepchick). But when the blogger chooses a poor registration system for posting and/or makes himself unreachable by not posting an email address (e.g. Zingularity does both), it makes me not want to bother reading the blog, never mind posting. And that’s without any animosity toward the blogger.

    A lot of the registration systems FTB bloggers are using are unfriendly and a pain to use (e.g. wordpress, facebook, yahoo) while friendly ones I’ve used on other blogs (e.g. disqus) have been dropped. Jen McC at “BlagHag” used to use the latter, but not anymore.

    I like the open posting that most bloggers use, and hope it stays that way.

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  6. Not that it will matter to me after this, but do you mean commenting on X Blog in particular, or FTB in general, to be grandfathered in?

    I have to disagree with P Smith on one particular. Anything but Disqus, please.

  7. Test to see if I am registered for commenting, and also to say that I like the two level deep nesting of comments.

    I also see that you have a different version of follow-up comment notification. The others I have seen here are just notification if another comment is posted, regardless of whether it is a reply to one of my comments or not. I prefer your method, let the user self-select which they would prefer. 🙂

  8. P Smith: Good points. In this case, it’s not fully proper registration … just use a name and an email address, and I approve the first comment and after that the same name and email address is now pre-approved. The email address need not be real, but I suppose it should look like a real email address.

    In the future we will have a different system that will be easier and more fun. I don’t know the details but probably registration via SNORKING media as well as integration with SNORKING servies (like, having your comment automatically posted to your facebook page if you want, etc. … though again, I’m not sure what will be implemented).

  9. I’m not sure but I think for the first time I’ve been lumped in with the normal people.

    Half the time I start a response to a post but get busy and never finish. When I come back I can’t tell if I’ve fallen victim of moderation or failure to post. If you don’t approve of me it may be a long time before I figure it out.

  10. Could you give an example of what you mean by “troll”? My assumption would be you mean people who disagree with you on an issue where you have a strong emotional and ideological view point but lack an ability to articulate your reasons for holding the view point. That has been the definition I’ve always found closest to how people use the word. As such using the word “troll” tends to make the person using the word look the worse for it.

  11. No, that is not the definition I was thinking of. A troll is someone who leaves an unattributed comment such as “David Byron Drinks His Own Pee”

    And I delete those. There are other kinds of commenters who are often called “trolls” but usually there is a more specific add on adjective. Like “concern troll” for someone who pretends to be worried that someone is doing something they should not do and makes a comment to that effect. I’ve found that concern trolls do a pretty good job of making themselves look like idiots, so I don’t bother “filtering” them.

    In the case of this particular crackdown on commenting, though, there was something ELSE going on in addition; Not troll behavior but simple spam, getting through the spam catcher.

  12. For what my opinion is worth, I do NOT like threaded comments at all. Everyone who shows up at a blog thread is able to read what I post there, and in fact, I INTEND for everyone to read my comments, just as I read all the other comments whether or not they were directed at me by name. If I wanted to talk only to one person on a thread, I’d use email; and if I comment on a blog thread that anyone can read, I can’t exactly pretend I’m talking ONLY to one person.

    Also, the paragraph indents required just look like crap, and on a long thread with lots of comments, it becomes very hard to follow what a particular comment is responding to (unless there’s a ruler-bar at the top of the screen to measure the number of indents, and even that wouldn’t help much). So why bother? If you want to make it clear that you’re responding to one particular person’s statements, then address that person by name and/or repaste — that’s much easier to read anyway.

  13. As usual, DavidByron, you’re lying, just as you were lying when you said that feminists wanted to exterminate all men. If you know anything about the Internet, then you would know that the word “troll” does NOT mean what you pretend to have heard it means.

  14. Speaking of trolls, if anyone needs any background about what kind of character DavidByron really is, just look for his comments on ERV’s happy little cesspool of misogyny. He’s left us plenty of…material…there for all to see. No wonder he has a problem with the word “troll” — he probably finds himself on the receiving end of it more than he likes.

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