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So Daniel promotes me to the exalted position of “Managing Editor.” A few days later, UF tops 4 million page views. Can it really be a coincidence?

Yes, actually, it can.

Regardless, I’m my new position I’m trying to make a point of checking the moderation and spam directories more frequently. We’ve had a number of people wind up in the moderation list for reasons that are beyond me. If this happens to you, be patient, and I will clear your comment within a few hours.

I should also say that we’re getting hammered by trackbacks and comments from spam blogs. The spam filter catches the majority, but a few slip through. If you see a comment from such, just ignore it for now. I’ll usually delete any replies to the spam comment rather than leave them hanging with no explanation.

Comments

  1. Custador says:

    If you want help monitoring the spam filter and Daniel doesn’t mind, just let me know. I can read it at the moment anyway (and occasionaly do), but can’t approve / delete comments from it.

  2. Peter Cross says:

    Excellent. Please clear my proposal of a lucrative situation involving Nigerian state funds in an offshore bank quickly. This is a time-sensitive situation. Thank you.

    • japanther says:

      Sounds legit. Do you accept third-party out of state checks? If you deposit a small amount of funds into my account, we can make sure the bank systems recognize eachother. I am a doctor of doctorology, so you know you can trust me.

      • Len says:

        And I’ve got the same surname as you, Mr . Looks like we could be in business for that inheritance.

        • trj says:

          If you all send me your account numbers and a letter of attorney I will make sure to deposit a substantial sum of money in your accounts, since I’ve recently decided to give away money to random people on the internet.

    • yahweh says:

      I don’t want to miss out on this opportunity. Please respond with your e-mail so I can forward my bank account info and social security number. I don’t want you to think I am not serious in my inquiry. ;-)

      • japanther says:

        Just make sure you disable your Anti-virus and firewalls. The company was having a lot of false positives with windows users.

        • yahweh says:

          “Just make sure you disable your Anti-virus and firewalls”

          What are those? :-)

          • japanther says:

            oh lawdy lol.

            This really all reminds me of the time my wife and I were chatting:

            (Japanther) Don’t install that, baby. Just right click on it and ‘scan for virus’
            (Wife) Do I open it in Windows Exploder?
            (Japanther)… Please tell me you didn’t install something called ‘Windows Exploder’…

  3. Ty says:

    “So Daniel promotes me to the exalted position of “Managing Editor.””

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer historian.

  4. Nox says:

    I’ve gotten a few “Your comment is awaiting moderation” notices on posts where I honestly could not see anything that would have set off the filter.

    Actually I’m pretty sure one of them was flagged because I used the name of she who must not be named (e********d*****) which I’m guessing was added to the list of naughty words here after she was banned.

  5. MahouSniper says:

    While you’re checking for spam, you might want to consider spell-checking your post. Or are you really your new position?

  6. kjpweb says:

    I would ditch trackbacks entirely since they are almost exclusively used by spammers anyway.
    There’s a WP plugin available, that disables them.

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