Registration

By stoat on September 4, 2011.

I've just tried to turn on registration, to deal with spam. It is probably doomed. Please try to leave a comment on this post letting me know how it worked. If it just totally f*cks up, then email me (wmconnolley (at) gmail.com). If just-post fails, try previewing first.

OK, it is totally f*ck*d. Thanks for your emails. I'll turn it all off now. My apologies.

I seem to have left approve-all-comments turned on. I'm going to leave that, for at least a bit.

Note that according to the settings, any "authenticated" commenter doesn't need approving.

[Most amusing failure email: "For some reason it thinks I am from Finland... and I dont understand Finnish". For those who said: I couldn't see any way to register: yes, I noticed that, I assumed it would work, somehow, for you lot.]

Recycling old posts

* We don't even know how many legs he's got

Tags
tech
mt uselessness

More like this

Weird Gmail behavior
A bit of blog housekeeping here... Normally, I find out about new comments on my blog through e-mail notifications that get sent to me shortly after you, the reader and commenter, post your comments. I find it much easier simply to scroll through the e-mails and see what the reaction is to my posts…
An open letter to Seed
The commenting issues here are seriously driving me nuts. I've just written another letter of complaint on the Seed backchannel, which always seems to mean that it will sink into neglect once again, so I've decided to also post it here, publicly. I hate to air dirty laundry like this because I…
And so it continues...
Why, oh, why is it that it is seemingly impossible for any sort of significant change to the ScienceBlogs collective to occur without major problems? It happened a a few years ago when we underwent the first major template upgrade. Given that experience, it was with great trepidation that I faced…
Conference Spam
Amusing, in a twisted an irritating sort of way. Who's on first: Dear scholars: Here is an invitation letter from 6th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management(ICSSSM'09) which will be held in Xiamen in June next year. We hope you can submit your new papers and…

Let's see if it works with my google id.

[Ah! Someone got through. Well done, you win :-) -W]

By Rattus Norvegicus (not verified) on 04 Sep 2011 #permalink

Let's try wordpress.

And once more, logged off from wordpress. I'm missing an opportunity to choose with which ID to comment, in case you are logged in at several sites (wordpress, google, ...)

[I think I've managed to turn on "require all comments to be approved before they appear". Maybe that is a good thing; I'm not sure. I'll leave it on for a bit and see what happens -W]

Hmph. I never saw a registration icon except for something called "HelaHela" that I figured was an ad -- or is it your registration tool? (Looked using Firefox, or Chrome); tried commenting while logged in to Google and to WordPress, with no luck. Trying now in case something's changed, also logged in to both Google and WordPress at the moment.

Trying again today.

By David B. Benson (not verified) on 05 Sep 2011 #permalink

William must be approving comments in the wee hours of the morning, long before dawn...

[Not quite. But I do wish mt had a more useable comment system -W]

By David B. Benson (not verified) on 05 Sep 2011 #permalink