Comments on: Breaking News : Jury coach crashes in Paris

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:44:18 +0000

Panda, unfortunately I’m out too. I only changed my name once from my first posting and that was because I didn’t like the first name that I picked. This has been my first blogging experience, so I was trying to figure out the best pen name. I have consistently posted as Grace since then. Also, sorry about the link thing – I didn’t go to the home page before I posted it so I didn’t see the warning. I had just been going straight to the W&K blogs. I haven’t been posting comments on the other discussions.

By: Panda

Panda — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:05:14 +0000

Well, John, that’s twice that you’ve let something private just “slip” out.

I sincerely wish the best to you and the site.

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:42:41 +0000

Everyone : it wasn’t the links that crashed the site, it was a DNS problem on the server. Muliple links are just binned by the software. However, links do cause problems for some readers, as I’ve explained. It’s just a WordPress thing, I’m afraid.

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:37:11 +0000

Panda, on links : short links are no problem, long newspaper type links break the sidebar in older browsers. It’s very easy to lay a link onto some anchor text, such as LINK, using the “a href” formula — I can’t spell it out or it will be converted.

Most spam comments use multiple links to porn or drug sites. Our software automatically takes them out and bins them. If we bypassed that system, the site would be flooded with up to 500 such “comments” a day, and they would end up in the inboxes of everyone who subscribes to a post. We fight a constant battle against this tide of junk, and we do err slighlty on the sterner side to make absolutely sure.