Yes, I am aware comments are borked on some recent posts - I apologize. It's apparently a code issue at Sb, and I can't fix it.
If you click directly through to a full post, you may not see comments. If you click on the "comments" link at the bottom of the post on the main page, you may be able to enter a comment there, but you won't see the full post anymore. This appears to be more of a problem for people using Firefox than for those using Safari.
And sorry about the timing - I know there are some lovely ladies anxious to express themselves about my last post. I've now added a link at the bottom which will hopefully enable you to view/add comments even if the coding issue continues.
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Threaded comments have advantages but they also have disadvantages. I won't mention the disadvantages because if you don't know what they are already than they aren't disadvantages to you.
For the past few weeks, I have allowed commenters to post using their TypeKey account. I didn't want to require commenters to register with TypeKey if they did not want to, so I still allowed comments from unregistered readers.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the unscientific survey on commenting. The results are back, and I'd like to share them with you.
There have been quite a few posts over the last few days about commenting, in particular about posting comments, notes and ratings on scientific papers. But this also related to commenting on blogs and social networks, commenting on newspaper online articles, the question of moderation vs.
For the other three people (besides Greg Laden and myself) using Linux, Konqueror also works fine.