So, my buddy Jack recently did some fiddling on the Simple Tricks back-end to try and stem the uncontrolled flood of spam that forced me to shut down the comments back in July. I quietly switched them back on a couple weeks ago, just to see what would happen. I’m still not entirely spam-free, but whatever Jack did has knocked it down to something I can live with, at least for the time being. I still have to manually weed out garbage comments every couple of days, but the upshot is, hey, comments! Not that I’ve provided much grist for conversation lately, but if anyone has anything to say, now you can.
You’ll still have to go through the whole sign-in rigmarole, I’m afraid, but I’m told that ought to be working better now as well. If you have any problems with it, let me know (jason at jasonbennion dot com). I look forward to getting the conversation going again!
Looks like mine will be the only legitimate comment so far…Hope the commenting lasts anyway. – Derek Smith
Hey, look at that! And it allowed my google account through. Joy!
Hey, guys, welcome back! Good to see you both again. One question though: did you choose to have those anonymous display names? Were you even given an option? Or did you think you were going to end up with your actual names on your comments?
I wasn’t given an option for a screen name, so I signed my real name. I didn’t think you’d recognize me as https://me.yahoo.com/a/m1mDJtAfxfM44vHz1AgT93l_aV7m4o8DuNk-#b966b. – Derek