Comments on: SkepticBlog Comment Policy

By: Drawoc Suomynona Na

Drawoc Suomynona Na — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:05:53 +0000

And apparently it was, because the comment didn’t go through here either… unless I spelled my username backwards. O… kay then.

Judging by the “spam-catching” message, you’re using WP-SpamFree, aren’t you? Hate that thing with a passion. There’s something about my writing style that makes it mistake many of my posts for spam (on other sites; haven’t posted here before), and it’s sometimes like pulling teeth for me to get a comment through. Not sure what it is about my comments that sets it off… Ah well.

By: Drawoc Suomynona Na

Drawoc Suomynona Na — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:04:00 +0000

Okay, I’m trying to post a comment in another thread, and keep getting flagged as spam (it’s not). Testing here with a very short link-free post to see if maybe it’s the username that gets me flagged…

By: tmac57

tmac57 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:25:22 +0000

There have been several times now that when I include a link to another website (usually neurologica or science based medicine),that the comment either takes an extremely long time to show up, or never shows up at all. Am I doing something wrnog? I see comments all over the blog with links, so I can’t see where that would be an issue.Also, this did not use to happen, this has been a fairly recent development.

By: Kavi

Kavi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:18:11 +0000

OK, so, Feralboy (post #20) is a troll, right? The name kind of gives it away. HobbitEater would have been better.

By: Feralboy

Feralboy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:20:43 +0000

I have noticed my comments disappearing more than once despite not violating any rules. This has left me very skeptical regarding the worth of your website. Goodbye.

By: Paul D. Wilson

Paul D. Wilson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:02:46 +0000

Maybe some of the vagueness of the comments policy could be relieved by giving us some examples of what is not allowed. It would be both instructive and entertaining. Oh Please. What could be better?

By: Dennis Hastings

Dennis Hastings — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:10:00 +0000

Wow, I think that you’ve about covered it all. And in mute testimony to all that came before, the comments left so far are just the type of blog content that beckons to those who are being discouraged from posting… you can almost sense everyone trying to avoid being ‘troll-ish’ as they opine on the merits of a logical discourse. You’ve got to love the challenge of being a polite skeptic. Thanks for making space available to the public for the exchange of thoughts.

By: pantone204

pantone204 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:16:55 +0000

Misspelling….

But no freedom is absolute, and all systems need rules and parameters. And so we reserve the right to restrict comments that are destructive or >> counteproductive <<.

Sorry, that was bugging me. Carry on!

By: Matt Snodgrass

Matt Snodgrass — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:39:45 +0000

There are a couple things that I noticed, having just checked out the site for the first time, which are not easily accessible. The first is that once I drilled down into a post to read the entire thing there was no button to get back to the main page readily accessible. The second is that there does not seem to be a place to leave general posts, like this one, unless they are added as comments onto a posting. These are minor nit-picky things, but also nice additions to any blog, in my opinion. Other than this of course, it’s a wonderful site and the only other thing I’d bitch about is that you guys are putting up too many blogs for me to keep up. Thank you, and please keep up the good work.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:42:27 +0000

Hey Frank! Speak for yourself! I am definitely not a Nerd! I like women, opera, ballet as well as the science and sceptic stuff. I like to think I am a Renaissance Man? ;-)