Site Commenting Problem Update
There are still problems with the comments on TalkLeft. Here's what's happening. Since I haven't been able to restore the comment template, the comments are still open to all. But, many are being directed to the "junk comment" screen and being held. They are mixed in with real junk comments -- which since comments are now open -- now approach 200 an hour. I have to log into the junk comments, find your real comments and unjunk them so they appear on the site, while deleting the junk ones. As you can imagine, this takes a tremendous amount of my time.
In a word, so long as you don't post as "anonymous," your comments will appear, they just may not be instantaneous. I am not filtering for content, point of view, or anything besides name-calling, profanity, links not in html format and the like.
I am planning on moving the entire site to Scoop from Movable Type -- and moving the site to its own dedicated server. It will look very much the same as it does now, but it will be much faster and there will be many additional features, including the ability of commenters to post their own diaries (like on Daily Kos) and for there to be separate blogs within the blog.
The redesign is under way. But, it's a huge job and ScoopHost, which I've hired to do the redesign and switch, is running into some issues and has to do a lot of original coding. I don't know how long it will take (since they charge by the hour, I hope not too long). Once they have built a test site, then I have to see if I like it. It may be that I don't think Scoop is the right software -- or it may be beyond my learning curve -- and I'm back to square one. I suspect we're still a week or so away from that point.
It's just growing pains but I know it's frustrating and we appreciate your patience.
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