Sunday, January 29, 2006

Bad Blog... BAD!

If you've recently posted a comment here, and it either didn't appear until now, or disappeared into cyberspace, it's because my blog turned on blog moderator without my permission or knowledge, while I was away. I rather wondered why nobody had posted a comment since I returned, but it wasn't until Jenn e-mailed me, that I realized what had happened. It would seem like a good thing to activate when you're away from the blog for a long time, so you don't come home and find your blog full of porn links, but in this case I didn't do it... does blogger automatically activate it after a period of inactivity, to protect unattended blogs... I don't know. So, there are two questions here: who turned on the moderator, and just how long would I have gone commentless before I figured out something was wrong?

// posted by IBOY @ 3:19 PM
Comments:
I am new to your blog, love your pictures, am a neighbor here in Missouri and am looking forward to spring when "we' can start gardening in earnest......appreciate you gardeners who blog in the winter and give us something to do!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 29, 2006
 
Thanks, Nancy...
We need to make a spring run to your state for fireworks for next summer.
Don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : January 29, 2006
 
Hey. I suspected you were unaware of the change.

Maybe Blogger made a universal change to make moderation the default?

I currently don't use my blogger account for anything but these handshakes for comments, so I am not up on what they have been doing lately.
# posted by Blogger Jenn : January 30, 2006
 
Blogger is always FIDDLING with things, and it seldom is an improvement. I wish now that I had gone with a fee for service site, but it's a little late now... I've got too much stuff here.
Don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : January 30, 2006
 
I am glad Jenn said something. Anyone who posted a comment got a message saying that comments were being moderated, so we all knew. I thought, "Surely Blogger must give him a message about comments waiting to be moderated . . . should I point out the obvious?" Obviously it was necessary. Thanks, Jenn
# posted by Blogger Kathy : January 30, 2006
 
Kathy,
Oh sure... must I be the last one to know EVERYTHING?
Don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : January 30, 2006
 
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