{"id":194,"date":"2011-03-12T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/03\/housekeeping-comments-and-guest-posts\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T21:45:27","slug":"housekeeping-comments-and-guest-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/03\/housekeeping-comments-and-guest-posts.html","title":{"rendered":"Housekeeping: Comments and Guest Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>One of my favorite things about blogging here is the interesting comment threads that develop on the posts. \u00a0I\u2019ve really enjoyed the discussions we\u2019ve had these past few weeks, and I particularly appreciate everyone who\u2019s taken time to patiently explain their views to someone on the opposite side of a religious divide. \u00a0It was one of my goals when I started this blog to have a place where religious people and atheists could spat respectfully and productively, and to further that goal, I wanted to go over two quick tips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blogger\u2019s Comment Spam Filter Sucks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t censor comments on this blog and I haven\u2019t been plagued by spam, but, unfortunately, there\u2019s no way to turn off Google\u2019s automatic filter since its roll out last year. \u00a0Sporadically, your comments get caught in the spam filter, especially when you post a couple long comments in a row.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t always notice immediately when comments are flagged, since I get email notifications rather than checking them through blogger\u2019s interface (easier to use on a cell phone). \u00a0If you think a comment got eaten by the filter and I haven\u2019t fixed it, feel free to let me know at leah DOT libresco AT gmail DOT com.<\/p>\n<p>Some problems aren\u2019t the fault of the spam filter but are the result of crashing browsers or bad internet connections. \u00a0If you\u2019re writing something long and thought out, you should probably save it in a word doc while you work on it. \u00a0Or you could see heading number two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invitation for Guest Posting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When comment threads get very long or when you are about to offer an in depth explanation of\/argument for your position, you should feel free to contact me at the email address above about the possibility of writing a guest post. \u00a0I like being able to highlight particularly interesting threads of a debate, and a guest post allows a fuller explanation than comment threads usually do. \u00a0Additionally, not all of the blog subscribers follow comment threads, so a guest post is a good way to be sure that your idea is accessible to all the readers of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2011\/03\/say-little-prayer-for-me.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">prayer thread<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2011\/03\/show-me-miracle-marvelous-rare.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">miracle thread<\/a> would like to talk to me about guest posting, please let me know.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4256452356987023523-816511457555834946?l=www.unequally-yoked.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about blogging here is the interesting comment threads that develop on the posts. \u00a0I\u2019ve really enjoyed the discussions we\u2019ve had these past few weeks, and I particularly appreciate everyone who\u2019s taken time to patiently explain their views to someone on the opposite side of a religious divide. \u00a0It was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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