For the first time ever in the two years I’ve been blogging, I have closed the comments on an entry. I always thought I could never get enough comments, but the things happening on the semi-legendary Bill Gates entry need to stop. Comments are split between very sad stories, and people making fun of those sad stories.
While I was at it, I closed the comments on the Bush and Clinton entries as well. People thought they were talking to Bush (a title of “Emailing the President” probably didn’t help), and the Clinton thing is straying too far into politics (admittedly, my own comments aggravated this).
I had to dig out the manuals to find the right tag to close them, because I removed that tag from my template long ago, thinking I’d never want to close the comments on anything.
Clinton's gift to Internet age: only 2 e-mails: You'd think he'd be more prolific, given that his vice-president invented the Internet and all. The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff and two by the man himself. "The only two he sent," Skip…
Report: Bill Gates tops list of charitable givers: Love him or hate him, this is a very good thing. Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are the most generous charitable donors in America, Business Week magazine said on Thursday, as the couple gave away or pledged a…
White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly: This is a lot like the email system rolled out by Senator John Kerry a few months ago. "When Mr. Matzzie sent an e-mail protest against a Bush administration policy, the message was bounced back with an automated reply, saying he had to send…
Er, why not just rebuild the entry with the "Allow comments?" box set to None?
Because that only works if you have the right tags in the template. I re-wrote the templates from scratch, and didn't include the IfAllowComments tag. I had to go put them back in.
