You may have already noticed that commenting is faster. That’s because whitelisting is now enabled. Of course the usual banned words and blacklisted commenter memes will go straight to the nether regions as before. Some comments that are questionable, and require the attention of a moderator will get held for review, but for 99% of people making comments, you’ll see an immediate speed improvement. After a million comments the hard way, it is time to work smarter. This is a win-win for the readers as well as the moderation staff, and particularly for me.
And, there are other improvements coming.
For example, “Tips and Notes” is going to disappear, to be replaced by a better system. This better system will include the ability for more of our readers to submit stories that make it to the front page. Again, this is to improve the speed and lessen the behind the scenes labor. WUWT has gotten so big, that it is a struggle to manage its upkeep now, so the solution is a smarter story management and comment submission system.
Stay tuned for more details, and in the meantime I welcome suggestions. Many of the changes will be implemented this coming weekend, and I’ll have a second post describing how to make the most of them.
In the meantime if you see inappropriate comments, drop us a note in the contact section of the header menu. There may be some tweaking we still need to do, but after years of this I think we have it tuned where spam and inappropriate comments are acted upon properly.
Note: No we can’t provide a comment system that allows you to edit your comments after they are submitted. That’s a feature wordpress.com won’t allow due to it being what they deem a security risk for code injection, even though it is often requested by WUWT and other blogs.
As always, my sincere thanks to everyone in this community that helps make WUWT successful from the readers, to the moderators, to the story tipsters – all of you are part of the success.
Final check. Put back in my website name to see if causes WP flagging to restart.
John
That comment got the new instant comment approval treatment. That is good.
So, it isn’t my website address that caused previous WP flagging.
So a mystery remains why my previous comments were going into a WP nether region file without either going into ‘awaiting moderation’ mode or getting the new instant approval treatment.
John
[Reply: It is indeed a mystery the way WP sometimes operates. — mod.]
[blockquote]It’s sometime very nerve-racking to find a certain comment out of hundreds to refer to, or searching a certain comment in a thread after a few days.[/blockquote]
Didn’t have time to read entire thread to see if anyone addressed this, but if you right click the date and time of a post – such as John Whitmans above – you can get a link direct to that post:
John Whitman says:
April 11, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Right clicking the date and time allows you to copy the following link directly to the comment:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/10/some-changes-coming-to-wuwt-readers-will-have-more-say/#comment-1272874
Looks like you’ve hit the clbuttic mistake with auto-censorship. (viz. the “as-smart-as” URL above)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2667634/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-When-obscenity-filters-go-wrong.html
It’s a known hard problem.
I wrote, “A ‘preview’ button would be just as good as an “edit” button.
Physics Major replied, “daveburton, If you want Preview and some other handy features, go to CA Assistant and follow the directions.”
Okay, thanks for the tip, using it now…
Wow, CA Assistant is seriously cool!
Thank you, Physics Major & MrPete (CA Assistant author)!!!
I’ve been using mostly Chrome, with IE as my backup browser, and Firefox as #3. I think that with CA Assistant, FF has just vaulted past Chrome and IE to assume the #1 browser role on my machines! (Fortunately, thanks to Xmarks, all three browsers automatically have the same bookmarks/favorites.)
Dave
http://www.sealevel.info
[FireFox also has an automatic spellchecker function for its “text editor” for all web pages. Mod]
For those who crave a preview option (which WordPress does not provide for comments) a simple solution (which I’ve sometimes used when posting long comments on a WP blog – or when WP is in wonky updating mode) is to use a private page on my own blog and compose the comment there, to see what it looks like.- and edit if required. When happy with result, switch to “Text” mode and copy/paste to here.
For non-bloggers, you can create one on WP (doesn’t cost anything), keep it “private” and simply use for this purpose.
And while I’m here – completely O/T (and an admittedly shameless plug on my part) – perhaps of interest to those who have been following the shameful shenanigans of those involved in the campaign to discredit the BC Auditor General’s Audit of Carbon Neutral Government, in response to my enquiry to the Auditor General, I received a very enlightening reply today, from the Assistant Auditor General.
BC Auditor General confirms enviro-activist Elgie’s “resignation” claim unsustainable
Hilary Ostrov
This is a good idea.
I’ve been a devoted Chrome user for a couple years, but I got tired of the constant hangs and freezing. On Firefox now and while I miss a few Chrome features, Firefox has others to compensate …
… and it actually works.
Testing testing!