Tech Note: Comment Moderation Is Glitchy

Aard has a persistent problem after the migration of Sb to Wordpress. Every day up to a couple of hundred comments spontaneously get "reported" and become invisible. This mostly hits old entries but also some of the newer ones. So don't despair if your comment shows up on the site briefly and then disappears. Nobody's out to get you. I check the list often and re-approve the erroneously hidden comments.

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