have observed or heard about some “upgrades” to MSDN blogs. Two notable changes are 1) the “moderation” of comments and 2) the disabling of comments on posts older than 30 days. happy,
microsoft office Standard upgrade key, but I’ll live. with the popularity of MSDN blogs also came the spamming of MSDN blogs. The spam issue floated around the internal blogger aliases for many months, and I gather the eventual solution was to allow every blogger to vet comments before they go live on the site. The blogger must now sign-in into .Text and approve or deny each comment. As someone who has only received spam once in a blue moon, I suppose I can’t weigh in on the hardship spam causes bloggers, but personally, I’d rather delete 100 spam comments each morning than approve or deny each comment as it rolls in. comment moderation is an option that can be disabled (and by golly,
discount microsoft office 2007 update key, it was promptly disabled on JobsBlog!) Unfortunately,
genuine office 2010 64 bit key, I’m told the downside to disabling this feature is that my blog will now be more vulnerable to attack from spammers. Kinda sucks I have to sacrifice for the good of the masses, but hey, I’ll do my part! :) most of the spam attacked older posts on MSDN blogs, the next solution was to disable comments on posts older than 30 days. <Major sigh, again!> In an e-mail announcing the new feature, we were urged to re-post links to older material if we felt the topics still warranted discussion, and if current discussion was floating around on old, buried posts, we should bring the topic back to the forefront so that other readers could contribute. totally get the latter part of that suggestion. It does feel awkward when I partake in a comment conversation on a three month old post while knowing current readers are never going to find that exchange in the deep archives. But at the same time, JobsBlog is a bit different from your typical blog. While written informally, our posts are more like articles (or “reference material,” to borrow a term from Heather). We get a shload of google hits a day on our really old posts, and often our 30+ day posts get more comments than our new posts. To re-post or re-write material discussed just three months ago seems quite repetitious and, I would think, be quite annoying to review again as a reader. Brian, a reader who posted a comment on an old post and to whom I am no longer able to respond,
microsoft office 2010 pro plus 32bit, you’ll have to wait until I write an entire post on the subject before you get your answer. Here’s hoping for the ability to disable this feature soon,
office Home And Student 2010 generator! thought … Josh and I talked about these upgrades earlier today, and he had a great solution. I think he forwarded his ideas along to the powers-that-be. He suggested that we merge the two features so that you have the ability to re-enable comments on posts older than 30 days but at the same time only activate moderation on the 30 day+ posts. Of course, if you like the status quo, you could let it be. Since most of the spam we receive is on those older posts, it seems like a logical solution to me. A win-win for everyone! We’ll see. Brian – I’d suggest submitting your resume through our career site. :) Zoe and I receive lots of comments on old posts, how do you think we should handle the disabling of comments? Should we create a FAQ category?