Mar 25, 2008
Apologies for my broken comment system
BY DERRICK SOBODASH
must apologize to all my readers. Dave Shadoff told me last week that when he posted a comment, he was immediately dumped to a dead page and never shown a Captcha. I failed to investigate why his comment never arrived in moderation.
Now I know.
There are some problems with my Spam Karma plug-in, and everyone’s posts are being flagged as karma “?” and held in limbo. The problem has apparently gone on for some time, and even comments on Final Fantasy VII were trapped.
I especially apologize to those who commented on the Tibet article. I was stunned how few comments it received. Now I know why: my page was broken and discussion could not take place.
I have restored all the comments which were stuck in limbo: they can now be viewed. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. Aside from one extremely racist comment, I have not censored any. I do not run that kind of Web site. I will approve all comments until I can fix the plug-in, so there may be some delay until your post appears.
One more shot
Appears to be working. I upgraded WordPress and SpamKarma. I think it was trying to hit a blacklist server that is dead. Everything should be working now, but I will keep a close eye on things for the next few days.