Help On Commenting
So it’s come to my attention that there are those of you out there who have nothing better to do than to read my blog. I can understand why some of you do (the whole being related to me and, therefore, having to do so out of a sense of family duty for starters 
), but there are other, more random people who, on the whole, have migrated across from other blogs (we’re an incestuous lot aren’t we 
).
It’s also been noted on more than one occasion that some of my readers don’t know how to post comments. It’s simple when you know how, but for those who don’t you’ll need to do the following:
Step 1: Go to the registration page. There should be a thing to click on to register on the right hand side of the page, but it’s small and might get overlooked. Not sure how you miss the ‘to comment you must be logged in bit’ and the ‘register’ on the login page if you click that, but hey, you’re busy, it’s not high on the priorities list, I can understand . By clicking here you’ll get to the same page but in a new window so the distructions remain visible. Aren’t I kind?
Step 2: Create an account. I know it asks for an email address but that’s the way Wordpress works. I’ll never do anything with the emall (unless I need to get hold of you for whatever reason and don’t yet have your address and the chances are, by that point, you wont care if I am sending you emails cos we’ll be blog buddies [or whatever the term is] and if you did care you’d tell me and I’d stop and we’d all be happy, if just a tad rejected in my case) and I’m happy for you to use throwaway addresses (like these). Its basically to stop bots and spammers.
Step 3: Log in. Not sure you can comment if you’re not logged in. Will have to try that out [nope - well, not obviously at least] Use the username and password you gave/got in step 2. If you forget your password you can get it to email it to you (bet you wish you didn’t use a throw away account now ). If all else fails email me (dom at this domain) and I’ll reset the password to something like ‘Iamaspoonthatforgetspasswords‘ or equally sarcastic.
Step 4: Craft your comment. Anything goes here. I don’t mind what you put provided you’re not linking to Viagra or anything else like that. All comment spam is deleted before it even hits the page so I don’t know why they bother, but what can you do?
Step 5: For the first 3 comments I’ll need to approve it. As we’ve established, this is only to stop comment spam and not to censor free speech (although knowing some of you lot you’d push it to see what I’d let through so, yes, I might delete some of the more extreme comments but only to keep things vaguely family friendly - you’ve got to remember: my Grandmother reads this). Such are the times we live in. You don’t need to do anything for this step, I do. Given I usually check when I get home (early evening GMT) it may take a few hours for your comment to appear. Patience
Step 6: This step is very rarely reached, but if you turn out to be a comment spammer then I’ll delete your account. all your comments and pray to Google that the evil lag monster blight your every internet connection and that your testicles/breasts [delete as appropriate] fall off and that you, your family and friends and everyone you care about gets added to every junk [snail and e]mail list known to mankind. Ideally I’d also have you shot, slowly and with great skill, but I am informed that this is impractical and prohibitively expensive to hire the people to do it and just ever so slightly illegal in most places in the world so I’ll have to eschew that option.
See, easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Given the amount of comment spam I do get (all deleted before it hits the site so WHY even bother? GRRRR!) I get from people who don’t have accounts there must be a way do generate comments without an account but they’ll be automatically tagged as spam and I’ll probably just bulk delete them.
