I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
GameTonight now creates a module for Panic’s excellent Status Board iPad app. The URL is simple, add ‘/statusboard’ to any metro…
I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple: show posts…
A comment today on my post from January 2004 pointed me to this very cool flash whiteboard.
I love it when I get great comments like this on old posts. It always seemed silly to me that people would want to disable comments on old posts1 – it always felt like throwing the baby out with the bath water to me.
I never understood disabling comments on old entries either. Old entries are where I get the majority of my comments because of search engine traffic. Why even keep the posts around if you allow visitors to read them but not interact? It defeats one of the purposes of blogging.
I was actually giving this some thought the other day. I had a friend who shut off comments on all old posts – and in his announcement, noted that he had several “how-to” style articles in his archives that drew lots of comments. Got me to thinking that maybe what was needed was a plugin to shut off comments on old posts, but have a whitelist of sorts where you could selectively enable them for those types of posts which you KNOW are popular in search engine traffic. Was just a thought…
well, for our purposes we need to at least moderate them because the older posts are far and away the most common target for comment spammers. if we didn’t moderate on older posts, we’d quickly be buried.
sad, but true.
Just have one of these codes displayed on an image that the user has to type in into a form to post his comment.
cause most spam is done automatically, not manually.
It didnt work for me, i couldn’t get someone to join either via aim or via email.