Saturday, October 11, 2008

Changing All Those Changes

The pieces begin coming together as transition gradually becomes improvement. A few items to note, done in the hope of making it easier to post comments:

  • Posting comments will no longer require that irritating word verification. (That's the 60's-acid-flashback lettering you have to input to prove you're not a computer sending out spam.) Thanks to Cathy for a great suggestion on that.
  • I've opened up the ability to comment to anyone, anywhere, who has a computer. Since hardly anyone has a computer and the widespread use of the Internet is still years away, I'm figuring it's safe to do that.
  • Since, in the time it took to type the previous bullet-item another 600,000 sociopaths, miscreants, and other people with IQ's that would embarrass a slug have made their way onto the Internet anonymously, comments will be subject to review by the moderator before appearing on the site. Not to worry - the moderator's a reasonable guy, and he's looking only to filter out the spam that the first two bullet-items subject the site and its valued readers to. It is not intended to filter out dissenting opinions, though I can't imagine there could be any anyway.
  • The above notwithstanding, the moderator's tolerance for anonymous letters (which are permitted by the system when it's opened up to everyone) is very low, so you won't be suffering through a lot of those either.
And there you have it for now!

9 comments:

Angie said...

Good old (pardon me) Ben! Trust you to take a sideways look at it.

love, Angie, xx
http://canyouallhearmeattheback.blogspot.com

Martha said...

I wish everyone would turn off that annoying letter verification - it should be a feature to add if wanted not an automatic. It's the only thing that has annoyed me over here at Blogger!

Sage Ravenwood said...

Sounds like your settling in rather nicely hon. Hope you have a grand weekend enjoying Autumns blazing colors. (Hugs)Indigo

Sandy Daigler said...

"...as transition gradually becomes improvement..."

Wiser words were never spoken.

Diama ~*a.k.a*~ Cherry said...

yayyy!!!

Amy said...

I have a dissenting opinion!! Wait, no I don't. As long as you supply me with Diet Coke, I will have whatever opinion you want me to have. LOL

Tawnya said...

I hate that letter verification thing as well. I can usually desipher it, but sometimes it gets me too... I am so down with the comment moderation though....

Monica said...

I'm with Amy, give me a Diet Coke and I'll pretty much agree with anything you say.

However, I'm out of Diet Coke so ...

I'll still agree because I hate those word verifacation things. Especially when I mess up and have to repeat the process because I thought a I was a L or something like that. I also do the moderation so others don't have to use the word verification and to avoid the spam.

Have a great week, I think I better go to the store and get my Diet Coke so I'll be a bit nicer to my family and friends.

Monica

Cathy said...

Whatever u choose to do, moderator, I hold u in earnest regard and hope to leave my imprint on these pages for many a year. http://cathy-daretothink.blogspot.com/