World History
Just a note that Blogger now has comment moderation enabled. I have turned it on. This means that I will have to manually approve every comment before it appears. I check my e-mail frequently (I will receive automatic messages when a comment is left) and I promise that except for rare occasions I will approve or reject a post fairly quickly.
When will I reject a post? Only if the post contains comment spam or has hate speech in it. That is all. Feel free to call me stupid or ridicule my viewpoint. I have a thick skin. But I have no tolerance for spammers or those who post incendiary material just for the sake of conflict.
UPDATE on 11 November 2005
As I now have two levels of spam protection, word verification and comment moderation, I am going to open up comments to anonymous posters. I see no harm in this now as anonymous posters will not be able to successfully abuse the comments.
- Comment Spam For The Holidays
Ah, I love the holidays. I get to spend Christmas, New Years, and various free days off from the university with my family. It is relaxing and gives me time for writing and blogging too. And, I get to delete an excessive amount of comment spamfrom this...
- What Is Your Favorite History Site - Open Comments
Over the years, I have become very protective of my comments. They have been targeted as prime spam space by many spammers and I still have to delete many spam submissions. One of the rules I enforce is that links to others sites almost always result...
- Comments Policy
I have decided to be less restrictive on the comment policy on this blog. I will now allow anonymous comments. Here are some rules that govern their approval: 1. Comments with links to other sites will be assumed to be spam and deleted. If you feel you...
- Call For Contributions: History Carnival #26
I am pleased to announce that the World History Blog will host History Carnival #26 on March 1st, 2006.If you are not familiar with the History Carnival, please check out the official History Carnival site or the latest History Carnival at Philobiblion.You...
- Word Verification On Comments From Blogger
Word Verification on Comments from Blogger. I am very pleased that Blogger is now allowing the option of requiring word verification on comment posts. Since I have turned the comments back on at the World History Blog, I have had to manually remove about...
World History
Comment Moderation
Just a note that Blogger now has comment moderation enabled. I have turned it on. This means that I will have to manually approve every comment before it appears. I check my e-mail frequently (I will receive automatic messages when a comment is left) and I promise that except for rare occasions I will approve or reject a post fairly quickly.
When will I reject a post? Only if the post contains comment spam or has hate speech in it. That is all. Feel free to call me stupid or ridicule my viewpoint. I have a thick skin. But I have no tolerance for spammers or those who post incendiary material just for the sake of conflict.
UPDATE on 11 November 2005
As I now have two levels of spam protection, word verification and comment moderation, I am going to open up comments to anonymous posters. I see no harm in this now as anonymous posters will not be able to successfully abuse the comments.
- Comment Spam For The Holidays
Ah, I love the holidays. I get to spend Christmas, New Years, and various free days off from the university with my family. It is relaxing and gives me time for writing and blogging too. And, I get to delete an excessive amount of comment spamfrom this...
- What Is Your Favorite History Site - Open Comments
Over the years, I have become very protective of my comments. They have been targeted as prime spam space by many spammers and I still have to delete many spam submissions. One of the rules I enforce is that links to others sites almost always result...
- Comments Policy
I have decided to be less restrictive on the comment policy on this blog. I will now allow anonymous comments. Here are some rules that govern their approval: 1. Comments with links to other sites will be assumed to be spam and deleted. If you feel you...
- Call For Contributions: History Carnival #26
I am pleased to announce that the World History Blog will host History Carnival #26 on March 1st, 2006.If you are not familiar with the History Carnival, please check out the official History Carnival site or the latest History Carnival at Philobiblion.You...
- Word Verification On Comments From Blogger
Word Verification on Comments from Blogger. I am very pleased that Blogger is now allowing the option of requiring word verification on comment posts. Since I have turned the comments back on at the World History Blog, I have had to manually remove about...