This is getting well past Stupid.
For a few months now, Commenters on our posts have been complaining that WE (or me) have been moderating their comments left on various posts that we put up. These fall into two categories:
Commenter NHNative brought my attention to this; it seems that there’s a new spambot out there that is upvoting just about every comment out there. Well, of COURSE I had to follow it to see what is happening. There’s a lady’s name followed by bright red lips. If you click on it, it brings you … Read more
This is getting well past Stupid.
For a few months now, Commenters on our posts have been complaining that WE (or me) have been moderating their comments left on various posts that we put up. These fall into two categories:
Hi folks! And especially to some of our Commenters – apologies. It seems that DISQUS has been taking what *I* think are relatively benign comments and put them into “NEEDS MODERATION” or were labeled as “SPAM” for no good reason at all. I’m just shaking my head – I’ve not seen this before since switching … Read more
Yet Another popular website on the right receives notice as “The relentless de-platforming of conservatives in general and of the David Horowitz Freedom Center specifically, continues.”
Even Instapundit is having problems with our commenting system, DISQUS, as well: “YEAH, DISQUS SEEMS TO BE BUSTED. I’ve emailed to try to get things fixed.”
If you comment on GraniteGrok.com, you use Disqus. Well, they’ve announced a change to the default viewing of replies to upper-level comments. When a comment has a lot of responses, Disqus will roll them up and provide a ‘read more replies link’ under the top level comment.