Some of our topics are generating a lot of comments. Please be aware that comments from anyone posting for the first time are held for approval – a spam prevention measure. After your first comment is approved then all your future comments will go up immediately.
While we try to approve comments as soon as possible, it may take several hours for this to happen. Don’t worry, your comment will go up when we can get to it.
By the way, the spam filter has been pretty active today in catching legitimate comments. If you are caught we’ll see that you are pulled out of the bin.
It seems to have messed up the threads. “Piracy from an author’s point of view” has lost a whole swathe of comments as far as I can see ……
I still think you should look into using Disqus for your comment system. Since this is likely a wordpress blog, it’s super easy to set up Disqus. Their website is disqus.com .
I use disqus on some UK newspaper online sites It is fairly good. But a system that allows text styling and previews as well as editing by the original commentor would be a lot better.
Maybe when the forum system comes we can look forward to that ? 🙂 and a better captcha ………
You know, it’s entirely possible to style your text simply by using HTML codes for things like italic and bold.
As for previews…hmm. We used to have a preview-as-you-type function in the old style, but it seems to have gone by the wayside in the new one. I wonder if it can be added back.
Thanks Chris .. but it is soooo tedious 😉 I really do hope that a forum system will be here soon and that will take care of a lot of issues remaining. The new site is so great in every other way.