Comment Moderation Trial


Original Post

As an experiment I have turned off comment moderation for posts on this blog for 28 days after they have been published.

Provided there are no huge embarrassments as a result I will leave moderation off for two months, and then review whether to turn it off for older posts as well, stick with a policy of no moderation for 28 days, or put comment moderation back on.

I still intend to delete any posts which I regard as offensive, as a potential source of legal problems, or negative comments about the person who has died in obit threads. But posts which make a constructive contribution to discussion will usually be allowed even if I disagree with them.

POSTSCRIPT

For very good reasons which I will explain when I resume blogging on 27th July, I will not be posting any new blog posts, comments or tweets either here or on any other form of social media for the next three months.

I still intend to have a two month trial doing without comment moderation, but it would be a bit of a nonsense having that trial at a point when I was not putting up any new posts or replying to comments. So the trial is postponed until the period of 28th July to 28th September.

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Chris Whiteside said…
Incidentally while reviewing comment moderation I discovered that a large number of perfectly valid and reasonable comments had been dumped by the blogspot system into the SPAM folder for no apparent reason. I have released a number of such comments going back about a year.
8:55 pm
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