Just a quick status notice: a bunch of commenters have been having problems with the system demanding authetication to be able to comment. I'm trying to fix it with the help of the SB tech folks. My first attempt made things worse, and made it impossible for anyone to comment. I'm trying to re-enable comments now, but since I'm not sure what disabled them, I'm not sure of what will work. Commenting ability using typekey authentication will be re-enabled ASAP; and commenting without authentication will be re-enabled as soon as the SB techs can figure out what's causing the authentication requirement.
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Since an annoying security hole in Typekey was exposed here, I've reenabled anonymous commenting. I still want to tinker with this, so later I may try requiring OpenID registration…but I've irritated everyone enough for one weekend, so I'll try that some other day.
ScienceBlogs is getting a systems upgrade tonight.
I've gotten complaints from a bunch of commenters about problems with comments getting thrown into the moderation queue by the spam filter. Things with too many links, or with certain text properties, were getting caught even though they are clearly not spam.
The churches open their doors to everyone who wants to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the central mythological event in their belief system…except clowns. No clowns allowed!
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Works for me.
I can comment if I sign in on TypePad.