Thanks to December 2010 Commenters

Thank you to the 131 commenters who left 191 comments in December. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them.Every month when I post thanks to commenters, I get questions about how I compile this list. I have explained my system in detail in … Read more

Thanks to October 2010 Commenters

Thank you to the 140 commenters who left 189 comments in October. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them.Every month when I post thanks to commenters, I get questions about how I compile this list. I have explained my system in detail in … Read more

Thanks to September 2010 Commenters

Thank you to the 169 commenters who left 243 comments in September. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them.Every month when I post thanks to commenters, I get questions about how I compile this list. I have explained my system in detail in … Read more

Spam Can Be Funny

When I posted some funny spam a while back, one of my commenters suggested I do it from time to time. I’m sure your spam is as entertaining as mine is, but not all bloggers make the effort to dig through the junk to find legitimate comments. Lately I have been inundated with spam from people, … Read more

Three Problems Solved, but a New One Appears

Thanks to Christopher Roberts, who is a regular commenter, for helping me find the answer to the question, “Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Threaded Comments?” When I upgraded WordPress, Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin quit working, and I couldn’t get the threaded comments in WordPress to work. Gravatars have never showed up in comments since I started … Read more

Thanks to July 2010 Commenters

Thank you to the 204 commenters who left 306 comments in July. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them.Every month when I post thanks to commenters, I get questions about how I compile this list. I have explained my system in detail in … Read more

A Chuckle from Spam

Does anyone really think I will approve comments like the ones below? The same comments were left a dozen times on different posts using different first names but the same URL, coming from the same IP address. The worst part is that these comments have been cycling through several Web sites. First they’re left by … Read more

Thanks to June 2010 Commenters

Thank you to the 180 commenters who left 268 comments in June. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them.Every month when I post thanks to commenters, I get questions about how I compile this list. I have explained my system in detail in … Read more

Thanks to May 2010 Commenters

Thank you to the 167 commenters who left 219 comments in May. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them.Every month when I post thanks to commenters, I get questions about how I compile this list. I have explained my system in detail in … Read more

Thanks to April 2010 Commenters

Thank you to the 120 commenters who left 172 comments in April. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them.Every month when I post thanks to commenters, I get questions about how I compile this list. I have explained my system in detail in … Read more