Technical Difficulties: Commenting “Malfunction”
Imagine for a moment a dark-haired, brown-eyed young man, about 17 years old, sitting in front of a white iBook laptop in an apartment in Alabama and experimenting with the commenting features for his blog.
Imagine this young man innocently clicking on “Beta Features” and, being full of curiosity, enabling the first feature he sees: comment moderation.
Further, imagine this young man exiting his browser and — in the hustle and bustle of the work he is doing — promptly forgetting all about enabling comment moderation and its consequences.
Finally, imagine the feeling in this young man’s stomach when he remembers what he had done (two and a half weeks later) and realizes that there are over 30 comments that neither he nor his brother had seen or responded to — all pending his “moderation” before they would appear on the blog.
You can stop imagining.
Sadly, the above story is all too real. You see, I (Alex) am that dark-haired, brown-eyed young man and I did, in fact, enable comment moderation two and a half weeks ago and promptly forget all about it.
My deep apologies to everyone who has commented over the past several weeks and not received a response.
As of this evening, at 11:30 PM (PST), all comments have been restored and comment moderation has been disabled. Commenting will now work as it did before and questions will be answered shortly.
Thank you all for your forbearance. God bless you!
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:12 pm
lol - I had a feeling something like that had happened!
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Dear Brother Alex,
It is a good thing I had such a wonderful quiet time this morning . . . or else . . .
Love,
Brett
P.S. Why do I only find out about these things by reading my own blog? Was I asleep already or something?
P.P.S. Why am I talking with you over our comment section?
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
That’s funny… I had noticed that you enabled comment moderation, and was wondering why you weren’t approving any comments. I turned it on once just thinking it would let me edit the comments, but alas, it is not so. It just doesn’t let them show right away!
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Hello You guys,
You may remember me from speech and debate, anyways, I have heard a lot about your guys’s blog. It is very impressive and I have enjoyed reading it a lot. You guys and a couple of others were the inspiration for me to create my own blog. Thanks a lot,
-Josh Dasher
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Well, I’m glad the problem was this simple! I was afraid I was on you guys’ “blacklist” or something
and that the readership of the Rebelution had dwindled to almost nothing! So glad to see that’s no the case!
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:24 pm
lol…i wish our memories would expand along with our workload!
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Don’t feel bad - it seems dark-haired brown-eyed fellow’s named Alex tend to have this problem. I did the same thing once - totally forgeting that comments needed to be moderated before they showed up.
I was wondering why you guys were getting so few comments…
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:40 pm
actually, aside from noticing a shortage of comments, i was completely oblivious to the problem:)
my being brown-haired and brown eyed has not influenced me at all into making that mistake. although, that may just be b/c i don’t have a blog or website….
it’s cool to hear what you guys have been up to. you’ve been working hard:)
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Oh…no wonder why…
Haha!
…that’s all right. We forgive you.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:10 pm
LOL.
I did the exact same thing once… and then felt very silly about it. 
Glad the comments are back!
June 24th, 2006 at 1:56 am
I was wondering what was the matter.