Disappearing comments. Also, html tags and registered bloggers
There has been a problem with comments disappearing from the ends of comment threads in this blog. And sometimes these comments will appear in the comment submission screen ( reached by clicking on the comment count at the bottom of each opening post ) but not in the normal comment-thread viewing screen ( reached by clicking on the list titled "Recent Posts" on the left side of the homepage). I recommend going to the comment submission screen to maybe get a complete or more complete list of comments. Also, on some of my recent comment submissions, I was not emailed the normal comment submission notification. Also, on Panda's Thumb I noticed that comments would mysteriously disappear and re-appear. This all reminds me of the following joke: Bill Gates says, "If the auto industry were like the computer industry, cars would get 1000 miles per gallon and cost $100." The auto industry answers, "If the auto industry were like the computer industry, brakes would work 99 percent of the time." I recommend saving copies of your comments in case you have to resubmit them.
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UPDATE: The problem of disappearing comments appears to have cleared up -- apparently it was caused by a very long delay in posting comments. Another blogger reported also experiencing problems at the same time. Still, though, there appears to be some delay in posting comments on the normal viewing screens, so the best chance of seeing the latest comments is by viewing the comment-submission screens. Anyway, I just love this blog! No longer do I have to bang my head against the wall trying to get my ideas posted on Panda's Thumb and other Internet forums.
Also, a short note was added to the discussion of html tags.
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Also, the instructions for this blog say that there are very limited choices for html tags for comments. The only ones that work or are supposed to work are bold, italics, and a, but I find that a alone does not work but that the a href=" option does work. The a option is equivalent to the url option. On the a href=" option, spaces between the quote marks and the URL link are not allowed. The "strong" tag is the same as the "b" tag and the "em" tag is the same as the "i" tag.
Also , the names of some of the commenters are underlined in the comment headings -- this indicates that the commenter is registered on this blog service, www.blogger.com . Clicking on the name will bring up the commenter's profile and links to the commenter's blogs and other websites.
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UPDATE: The problem of disappearing comments appears to have cleared up -- apparently it was caused by a very long delay in posting comments. Another blogger reported also experiencing problems at the same time. Still, though, there appears to be some delay in posting comments on the normal viewing screens, so the best chance of seeing the latest comments is by viewing the comment-submission screens. Anyway, I just love this blog! No longer do I have to bang my head against the wall trying to get my ideas posted on Panda's Thumb and other Internet forums.
Also, a short note was added to the discussion of html tags.
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Also, the instructions for this blog say that there are very limited choices for html tags for comments. The only ones that work or are supposed to work are bold, italics, and a, but I find that a alone does not work but that the a href=" option does work. The a option is equivalent to the url option. On the a href=" option, spaces between the quote marks and the URL link are not allowed. The "strong" tag is the same as the "b" tag and the "em" tag is the same as the "i" tag.
Also , the names of some of the commenters are underlined in the comment headings -- this indicates that the commenter is registered on this blog service, www.blogger.com . Clicking on the name will bring up the commenter's profile and links to the commenter's blogs and other websites.
posted by Larry Fafarman | 4/24/2006 10:19:00 AM
19 Comments:
Larry you're the only one who can delete comments, but you cannot edit them in anyway and neither can anyone else. I had a similar problem at one of my blogger blogs and what I figured out is that certain typed characters on blogger if put in the right places can make the comments inbetween them disappear on certain browsers. For instance I was using Firefox to read a comment by someone and then later I checked out the comments using Opera, there was a whole section of comments from that person which was invisible using Opera because the poster put something like *-*-* around his comment, I don't remember exactly what he put around his comment but it was something like that. At first I thought that there was a glitch in the blogger software but then I went back later using Firefox and I could see the comments and then I figured out what was going on by typing the same characters around a new comment and it had the same effect of disappearing on Opera. If that's not the problem then there is a gltich in the blogger software, blogger was acting up yesterday when I tried to publish something on one of my blogs, it wouldn't publish after repeated tries.
Thanks for the info, but I don't think that is what caused the problem here. Please see the update on my opening post.
But that would defeat Larry's grand experiment.
http://brainwashedgod.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-to-force-only-registered-users.html
how to force users to register
woops. try this
arrrgh. Its the top post at http://brainwashedgod.blogspot.com
BWE --
Yes, I was aware of the registration option, but I rejected it. I have often found registration to be a hassle on other forums. Sometimes my registration did not go through at all.
It sure didn't take "Anonymous" long to find this blog -- it was less than 10 days old when he posted his garbage, most notably on the ID/IC thread. Maybe he figures that he can provoke me into breaking my no-deletion policy so that he can call me a hypocrite.
There is also the option of comment moderation, but I don't want that either. Moderation prevents the timely posting of comments, and I would constantly have to check on my computer for incoming comments -- it would be an extra burden for me.
Spaces are not allowed anywhere in URLs (which is what appears inside the quotes of an "a" tag. Mosts browsers properly interpret spaces in URLs, but you are supposed to use "%20" wherever a space appears in the path.
Larry, love the new blog, it is SO you!
In the words of my favorite creationist, I love it so!
anonymous
At least you got that right. You bet I am creationist, just not one of the bible-thumping, psalm singing, seat-hurdling, bobbing and weaving varieties.
My Gods are dead but when alive did things beyond human comprehension.
Congratulations. You finally said something rational. I say an A for Anonymous, an unknown person who must who use an alias. The internet is crawling with the likes of you. Anonymity should never have been allowed. It is nothing but license for unilateral abuse, your only talent. You are pathetic.
I love it so!
what a jackass
Thank you Stephen and thank you for inviting me to this blog. It is very revealing.
Speaking of disappearimg comments what happened to the biggest bully in cyberspace Spravid Dinger? Do you suppose Dilliam Wembski took him aside and told him to cool it?
That is exactly what Der Fuhrer Esley Welsberry has been telling his loyal goose-stepping, jack-booted, brown shirted, brown underware-stained underlings over at the Bunker. The only apparent difference is they pay no attention to Der Fuhrer while Spravid Dinger seems to have groveled at the feet of his master. He really should as Uncommon Descent is the only forum in cyberspace that would have him.
Maybe he is in transit on his way up to Vermont to give me a whipping. Lord how I hope so! At my age and general condition I wouldn't mind spending the rest of my days in a federal prison anyway.
I hope they will let me have a computer so I can continue to expose both sides of this infantile debate, the debate that ever should have occurred. If the lightweights like Ernst Mayr, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould hadn't snookered the whole world with their slick atheist wordsmithing we would be discussing Bergian evolution today instead of Darwinian mysticism.
It is hard to believe isn't it?
Naturally,
I love it so!
Whoever that was, I suspect Spravid Dinger, he can't spell my name right.
Oh yeah? Well maybe you'd like to come up to Burlington, Vermont and tell me how to spell my name. I'll be waiting to greet your cum slurping ass with two barrels of double ought buck.
Got that?
Write that down!
I love gay sex so!
You have a great blog here Larry. Congratulations.
"pigs is pigs"
anonymous
I love it so!
Larry
I just had a real brainstorm. Wouldn't it be grand if it was impossible for the poster to delete his own message. If that could be coupled with an insistence on identity? I'll bet internet communication would sure take a turn for the better.
Imagine a scientific literature dominated by anonymous cowards who could say wahetever they wanted and retract whatever they said whenever they felt like it. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Have you noticed lately that there is virtually no ongoing defence of the Darwinian fairy tale in the professional literature? I have. They just go on blithely assuming it is gospel as absolutely nothing that is now being revealed can possibly support such an idiotic posture. It has always been that way. Darwinism has no critics and never did have. It is out of the question don't you know. But it is different now as the great antiquity of whole gene families is becoming apparent and as "preferred" pathways are being disclosed and as chromosmes have been shown to have recombined at "preferred" sites. If something is "preferred" it was "prescribed." There is now and never was a role for chance in either ontogeny or phylogeny just as Leo Berg insisted over eighty years ago. So did Einstein -
"Everything is determined... by forces over which we have no control."
I love it so!
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