But I've also turned on comment moderation, which means a "moderator" will have to okay them before they appear. This may be a step that is unnecessary once our troll goes away. But until then please bear with me as I try to keep fake comments down.
Compound Calico emailed me the steps necessary to delete comments on any post, and earlier today I went through and excised 20 or so.
Calico and two other members of the blog have volunteered to help screen comments for the short term. My thanks to them.
PS to Ophelia...it's truly 12:21 Pacific time right now... :)
Indeed! I love the comments, and many terrific conversations have taken place in them. But I can easily see how they could become a morass of B.S. if unmoderated "jokers" insist on playing games.
ReplyDeleteSheesh. You created a blog where anyone who asks nicely can get permission to post and, once he has it, there's not a blessed thing anyone can do to stop him from posting exactly what he wants. It's the Blog of Gyges. Of course a few idiots are ruining it for the rest of us. That's what they do.
ReplyDeleteELS. . . where did your avatar go, now. . .?
ReplyDeleteDr Lemur, I've never had an avatar. There was a comment on another post with something, but I didn't know what it was. It wasn't me.
ReplyDeleteIf one has to log in to post, how does someone else appropriate another poster's log-in name? I guess I'm naive, because a) I don't know how that works, and 2) it's not something I'd ever consider doing.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, I just added the little picture-thingy...which I'm sure can also be appropriated by someone else to impersonate me. *heavy sigh*
ReplyDeleteA number of readers have emailed the College Misery email to ask if I can stop this, and I'm looking into it. One longtime blogger who is among us says this sort of things usually happens in spurts. The troll will get tired of messing with it and will likely leave on his own at some point. But I'm checking everything I can.
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ReplyDelete(my deleted comment was something about this being like playing mafia/werewolf with a bored imbecile (or a butthurt poster with an ax to grind) instead of a killer. Hopefully junior high classes will start again soon and Troll will be busy with band practice and getting beamed in the head by jocks in PE; sadly, limiting comments to registered people might be the only solution for the time being)
ReplyDeleteCompound Calico told me how to delete comments, and I've just gone through and taken out 20 or so that seemed to be fake comments from a variety of appropriated screen names. I may have missed one or two, and maybe I deleted a real comment here or there, but I now know how to delete fake comments. Of course these were easy to spot. Sorry again. I'm working on it.
ReplyDeleteI'm on Pacific Time and it's only 11:46 right now. Is this an update from the future?
ReplyDeleteOphelia, my clock skills are apparently exactly as good as my blogger skills!!
ReplyDeleteI just want to see if my comment appears.
ReplyDeleteVICTORY!
ReplyDeleteYes, folks who are registered bloggers or posters will have comments appear immediately. Folks with Google, TypePad, WordPress, and OpenID accounts (who AREN't registered posters) have their comments go into temporary limbo until they are approved...the things you learn when you have to!
ReplyDeleteI've moderated things with easy-access commenting before. As your long-time blogger said, these sorts of things happen from time to time. Hang in there. This, too, shall pass.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to have Calico here, but it's odd to me that he shut down RYS and sent us all in a panic... but is now a moderator on CM.
ReplyDeleteAcademic Monkey,
ReplyDeleteRYS took me upwards of 3-4 hours every single day, sometimes 7 days a week, sometimes weeks without a break. I've done about 15 minutes of work in 8 weeks helping Fab with a couple of things.
I loved RYS, but it took far too much time from my family and my job, and I was never successful in recruiting mods who were willing to do the amount of work that page required.
Fab asked me as a favor to advise him on things he didn't know. These are tiny things, truly.
It seems sorta fun over here and I've been enjoying reading the posts and the comments. If I can help from time to time, I'm happy to.
Thanks for the help, Cal.
ReplyDeleteHopefully this mess will be cleared up so you can take your pre-semester "nap" in a few days. ;)