Comments made on blogs run by blogger are prone to being deleted at random or moved without warning to a section marked spam. This is a problem which affects not just this blog, but any run via blogger. My daughter keeps her own blog on wordpress and assures me that blogger is notorious for these problems. Home educators, living as they do in a world where nothing happens by coincidence and everything is part of some overarching plot against them, simply do not seem to get this! I have only ever deleted one person's comments from this blog and that was Peter Williams. He started posting literally every couple of minutes with single lines suggesting that my daughter and I should eat horse shit and so on. Apart from that, I have never bothered who says what here.
I did not ask blogger to install a spam filter; they did it all blogs. Sometimes I forget for days at a time to check this thing and see what is caught there. This is because I have a life apart from this blog and am actually quite busy at the moment. Somebody yesterday became angry about this and threatened to start her own blog if I did not sort the problem out. I can only advise anybody who wishes to do this to go right ahead. I do not censor anything here and am not answerable for blogger's activities with spam.
What is curious is that this happens on all blogs run with blogger and yet I have never seen any accusations elsewhere that it is anything other than a technical glitch. Why do home educators always seem to assume malign intent on the part of others towards them?
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I wondered what had happened to Mr Williams.
ReplyDelete'I wondered what had happened to Mr Williams.'
ReplyDeleteSorry, I did not make myself clear. I am not currently blocking any comments from him. This was just for a few days last year when he was apparently in an absolute fury with me! He is as welcome as anybody else in the world to comment here, as long as he does not become over-excited. I too wondered why he suddenly dropped from sight.
Simon.
And...how was his punctuation and spelling?
ReplyDelete'And...how was his punctuation and spelling?'
ReplyDeleteI noticed he NEVER began a sentence with and ;-)
So many pedants so little time.
ReplyDeletePeter has had trouble with the spelling of 'and'.
ReplyDelete'So many pedants so little time.
ReplyDeletePeter has had trouble with the spelling of 'and'.'
Is that what they call cognitive dissonance?
"What is curious is that this happens on all blogs run with blogger and yet I have never seen any accusations elsewhere that it is anything other than a technical glitch."
ReplyDeleteWell I can put your mind at rest about that. I've seen this response several times on various blogs (including the NHS blog doctor site, for instance), none of which had anything to do with HE. What is it with people trying to define particular behaviours as particular to home educators? Some people need to get out more, then they'll see that it's just 'normal' human behaviour.