Help: Comments

This page was last modified on Friday, 16 May 2008, 11:18 HST @804

I’m commenting my own posts when I want to add new content and links to an article.

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To leave a comment, users may log in with an OpenID, Gravatar or an ID from billso.com. (Added 5 April 2008)

I have enabled direct commenting to many of the article pages, but I do review, edit and delete comments because of privacy and spam issues. I have far more spam robots that want to post free ads on my site than I do actual readers. I find myself agreeing with James Farmer: comments that users post into a blog require a great deal of my time and resources to manage. Comments are twee.

Readers can e-mail me their comments, too. In your email, please include the phrase “I give billso.com permission to post my comments”.

Sometimes I refer to old articles in my blog, and those will appear as direct comments.

TRACKBACKS AND PINGS

Bloggers are welcome to post their own comments in their blog, along with a link to my article. My blog will automatically find and list these links as comments, although it may take 2 days for the comments to appear with my blog post. It’s not an instantaneous process.