Today The Bitch goes down on bended knee to beg forgiveness from all those people who have left witty and thoughtful comments on this blog which have only now appeared...
Pray give me leave to tell you a tale of a Blogger-Boggled Bitch.
Once upon a time a Bitch was blogging happily away, her comment settings fixed at the default mode they came with - Registered Users only, Comment Moderation unticked - and with email notification ticked, comments appearing on her posts (and in her email box) now and then. Then one day (this week) Jessica commented on Scott's Pack's blog that she had wanted to leave a comment on The Bitch's blog, but hadn't wanted the hassle of registering. Quickly, The Bitch adjusted her comments settings to allow anyone to comment, and generously Jessica tried again and The Bitch was rewarded by hearing what she had to say.
Next, The Bitch gets a gentle hint from Alan Kellogg: he presumes she's checking comment moderation. Yikes! thinks The Bitch, completely misunderstanding and thinking he means tick when he says check and is warning her against junk and offensive posts now that anyone can comment, and she dashes to the settings page and ticks 'Comment Moderation'. Some hours later she opens the Comment Moderation menu, and lo and behold, what does she find but a long list of comments waiting for moderation, some of them dating way back, one person even wondering why the comment she posted previously hadn't appeared! (And since The Bitch was away from her broadband and using a mobile connect card and paying for every kilobite downloaded, and every one of those beeps was audibly chipping at her meagre bank balance, she went hot, started a migraine, and published the lot without loading them up, so that junk and offensive stuff got published anyway!)
The Bitch is still scratching her word-filled but technologically-deficient little head about this, and maybe someday some kind person of a more worldly-wise character will take her by the hand, sit her down and explain, but in the meantime, folks, a thousand apologies and thanks for all your insight and wit.
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5 comments:
WHAT???!!! Lowly?!!! Jude, you display a personal honesty on your blog which The Bitch would need two years under analysis to achieve!!
Isn't the word 'check' often used to mean 'tick'? eg 'Check box below'? It was the fact that I had not ticked/checked the Moderation setting which made me interpret your question in this way. And I still don't understand why, when it wasn't ticked, some comments - including your question - were published automatically (without needing to be moderated)as expected,when others weren't.
8:10 AM
Why don´t you just leave comments unmoderated? Let anyone say what they like?
Because, as I discovered, unless you only allow registered users, you get junk/spam adverts, and also people using your site to slag others off on an unnecessarily personal level, which, Bitch though I am, I will not permit.
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