Comments on: Blogebrity

By: Lorne Ipsum

Lorne Ipsum — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:34:25 +0000

Congrats, BA! I don’t think I show up on any of these lists (must be down around the X- or Y-list), but I’m OK with that… It just reminds me how much I’m saving on bandwidth.

Lorne

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:45:59 +0000

Akismet will eventually train itself to grab almost all of that spam if you’ve got the time to mark spam as such. I’ve never really heard of it allowing so much spam through immediately, though. That’s quite curious. I get a lot of spam, too, but it quarantines it all on its own.

By: Rumour Mongerer

Rumour Mongerer — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:35:09 +0000

I’m a D-Lister who’s blogged about blogging in a vacuum (and the freedom that not being read implies), so I’m not entirely sure I do covet your fame.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:32:51 +0000

Yes, but I still get tons of emails and comments about it. I am using SpamKarma, and cannot figure out how to edit the regex list. It is killing lots of spam, but getting me in all sorts of other trouble. I have added Akismet, but when I turn SK off I get lots of spam getting through.

The problem is getting pretty bad again. I have reservations about moving commenting to BAUT, but with the added rules in place I’m hoping it’ll work out well.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:01:22 +0000

I hate the idea of the blog comments being attached to BAUT. I almost feel like groveling, the idea bothers me so much. It’s much easier and smoother to read lots of comments here – there’s not all the “noise” of the board doodads, there’s no conflict of allowable content, etc. For the problem now, all people have to do is “refresh” and see that their comment is there despite the error page; it’s been discussed quite often.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:15:27 +0000

I know about the errors, and they are very hard to fix. I've been working on this for weeks, but have been held up due to time pressures. I've been saying this for a long time, I know, but I'm hoping to have it fixed soon. See here. Sorry about this.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:32:38 +0000

Congrats Phil! You’re one of my daily stops, even when I get cranky.

By: RAF

RAF — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:31:23 +0000

I’m getting the same type of error messages as Chuck S.

I’m also getting them when I report bad posts on the BAUT.

By: Chuck S.

Chuck S. — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:17:07 +0000

Sorry for the double post. I get annoying error messages whenever I post comments to your blog these days so I thought my comment wasn’t going through:

Regex ID: 18261 () appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.

Error messages deleted by The Bad Astronomer because they are very long and mess up the page layout.

By: Chuck S.

Chuck S. — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:16:07 +0000

This sad little D-Lister envies your fame. Good on you, Phil.

By: Chuck S.

Chuck S. — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:15:48 +0000

This sad little D-Lister envies your fame. Good on you, Phil.

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:03:40 +0000

Congratulations – although personally I follow the advice of Groucho Marx, when he said he didn’t want to belong to any elite club that would accept him as a member!

By: JB

JB — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:01:51 +0000

Hey there BA, I’m a regular reader of your blog and congratulations on being on someone’s A-list. But when I clicked on your link to the page I was instantly transported from your sceptic/down-to-earth space into the crass/popular culture milieu, and to a picture of Paris Hilton strutting her stuff (i.e., to another planet) so I’m not sure that particular A-list is much of a reference…