Comments on: Linkblogging for 04/08/08

By: olsenbloom

olsenbloom — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:51:25 +0000

Thanks so much for doing that, Mat – testing it now.
And I saw that about approvals later, when looking over the site to see if I could set up notification. I left it the way it is for now though – on my old blog I left comments unmoderated until one point when someone who objected (depending on his post) to my opinions on the terrible comic Countdown and/or to the very concept of criticism and/or to me being a ‘limey faggot’ started posting forty comments per post disparaging my writing, my appearance, my sexuality and my parentage.

By: MatGB

MatGB — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:45:44 +0000

Oh, Andrew, first comment from someone normally needs approval, after that they should go straight through, doesn’t always work, and you can turn it off to let any comment through immediately if you prefer it (I do and the legalities are more clear).

By: MatGB

MatGB — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:44:28 +0000

Right, I think I have a workaround using Feedburner, bit of a hassle and it needs testing by someone not using my account... Subscribe to Comments on: Linkblogging for 04/08/08 by Email

By: MatGB

MatGB — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:23:51 +0000

Andrew’s right, you need self hosting for comment notification as they haven’t put the plugin live on the .com hosted version (which is really annoying). Same applies to the cross poster and similar.

I think there’s a way of turning RSS feeds into emails, but then you have to really mess around—I’ll see if I can figure it out later.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:00:51 +0000

I think there’s a thing you can add. Mat would know more, though.

By: olsenbloom

olsenbloom — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:45:43 +0000

(I suppose the best solution short term would be to subscribe to the RSS feed of the comments – it’s not like I get that many anyway. Sorry about that though).

By: olsenbloom

olsenbloom — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:44:35 +0000

Gah. Just doublechecked. WordPress.com (as opposed to .org) don’t allow comment notification for commenters. I’d have to move to self-hosted (as opposed to using their hosting but my own domain) and I don’t have the time/cash right now (I’m planning to do that some time soonish… like Octoberish). Irritating – I honestly thought that would be turned on by default, not unavailable…

By: olsenbloom

olsenbloom — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:32:38 +0000

Didn’t realise it was turned off (I’m new to wordpress). Also didn’t realise anyone could post without me approving the comment first (every other comment has needed approval)… all very odd. I’ll get on it.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:27:21 +0000

That’s not an intemperate rant, that’s a perfectly sensible statement of truth.

Please to be installing comment notification?