A Note on Commenting

Twice in the last month, I've woken up in the morning to find that someone during the night has made a severe violation of my commenting rules, and because I was asleep, it was up for hours. There have been a about a dozen times in which someone has made a serious rules violation during the day, and I've caught it quickly. There have been a couple of dozen times in which a spam comment has made it past Blogger and had to be deleted.

  

I  suppose I should be grateful that for 16 years, I've only had to turn on comment moderation a few times. But because spam and rules violations have become so prevalent more recently, I don't have any choice but to turn on comment moderation permanently. That means that I will have to click a link to approve any comment before it appears. As you can imagine, during certain times of day, this delay will be considerable.

     

Blogger alas offers none of the following tools, all of which would solve or partially solve the situation:

   

• The ability to turn on moderation only during certain times of day.
• The ability to designate multiple people as comment moderators without giving them administrative access to the entire blog.
• The ability to turn on moderation only for non-registered users.
• The ability to specify my own keywords for accepting or rejecting a comment.
• The ability to hold comments with links. 

    

I know there are other commenting options, but I'm reluctant to explore them given the 16 years of comment history that we have using Blogger's native tools. Nonetheless, I will continue to explore possibilities.

   

In the meantime, I beg you not to make the comment delay an issue. Please continue to offer your thoughts about these games as your normally would, and rest assured I will post them as soon as I can.