Comments on vowe.net were always much better than on the rest of the Internet. I attribute this in part to my policy to only keep comments published with a full name.
When I migrated to WordPress, I switched on comment moderation. I needed to approve every person only once and things would run smoothly. A while ago, I had a few people who wanted to test my tolerance, for instance by publishing comments under my own name. Then I switched off auto moderation, and now I must approve every single comment.
That means it may take a little while for your comment to appear. But it also relieves me from deleting comments that have already been published.
There was a grace period where I would inform you if you “forgot” to enter your full name, but that ends now. I just trash the comment.
Spam comments far outnumber regular comments, but Akismet takes care of them. There is quite a bit of housekeeping going on when you allow other people to post to your website without authorization.
This website is more than 20 years old, and I have never used your mail addresses for anything put sending you a direct reply. I don’t to newsletters, I do not keep a list of commenters, I don’t track visitors, I don’t run advertisements, I do not do advertorials.
In summary: this place should not even exist. And that is why it does.
And that is why we all love to read not only your posts but also all of the comments.
Thanks a lot for your effort and the fun we have enjoying it!
Best regards Matthias
Vowe.net is probably the only place on the internet where I actually read the comments under a post.
> Vowe.net is probably the only place on the internet where I actually read the comments under a post.
That is so true. I checked a few times today to see if any comments on recent articles had been posted… or approved.