UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY: How do you get those smilies past the moderator?
I can hear a sound like a space ship of fevered imagination. What could it be? It’s sorta high pitched and spinning. Weird. I’ll let you know from a far and distant star where I end up. Will they freeze me for a trip that could take years?
Thanks V. I dunno.
They have auto-moderation, whereby they have rules that send some comments to be reviewed by a human being before they get published, depending on content. I doubt they intend smiles to be caught by those rules, but they are probably being accidentally caught by some more general rule. So I didn’t exactly get the smilie around the mod; the comment got delayed while it waited for review by a human who OK’d it.
I wish they didn’t do auto-mod or did it more cleverly, but I don’t want to be too critical because I know people work to budgets and constraints that we don’t know about. I sure as heck hope it is stopping some bad unwanted comments, because it is a real nuisance for us FD groupies.
Exactly, it is a real bind for the FD groupies. Throughout Crikey there are columns and blogs written and controlled by the writers themselves, I would have thought FD fitted into that catagory. Luke Buckmaster, Possum, Poll Bludger and Ben Sandilands are four examples. And, to a greater, or lesser degree the major part of the publication comes under the aegis of the Moderator, human or otherwise. I might get something really edgy under the radar of this lot, before going over to FD only to cop a moderator is watching notice for saying Mary had a little lamb.
The strange spaceship noises were due to a malfunctioning set of traffic lights down the road from me.
I bring you bad tidings. Grip yourself hard. Someone has snitched your beautiful Jerboa-ouch, sorry, Gerbera avatar. Is nothing sacred? It’s a bloke, but I’ve not heard of him before. See ya and love V.
PS: Re moderation. In the political dept, usually on one of Bernard Keane’s articles, appears a right-wing troll who thinks nothing of writing up to a hundred posts per article. As most of these are repetitive trolling they use up endless space and contribute nothing to the discussion. That’s where people should be under a certain limit per article.
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Venise Alstergren
March 5, 2012 at 4:23 pmUNTIL PROVEN GUILTY: How do you get those smilies past the moderator?
I can hear a sound like a space ship of fevered imagination. What could it be? It’s sorta high pitched and spinning. Weird. I’ll let you know from a far and distant star where I end up. Will they freeze me for a trip that could take years?
It’s just like a bad, bad movie.
Venise Alstergren
March 5, 2012 at 4:26 pmINNOCENT: I’ve replied to you and naturally it’s being looked over by the ‘Gumbos’ resident at Crikey. I’m afraid you will just have to wait for it.
Cheers
V
Innocent Until
March 5, 2012 at 10:57 pmThanks V. I dunno.
They have auto-moderation, whereby they have rules that send some comments to be reviewed by a human being before they get published, depending on content. I doubt they intend smiles to be caught by those rules, but they are probably being accidentally caught by some more general rule. So I didn’t exactly get the smilie around the mod; the comment got delayed while it waited for review by a human who OK’d it.
I wish they didn’t do auto-mod or did it more cleverly, but I don’t want to be too critical because I know people work to budgets and constraints that we don’t know about. I sure as heck hope it is stopping some bad unwanted comments, because it is a real nuisance for us FD groupies.
Venise Alstergren
March 5, 2012 at 11:23 pmExactly, it is a real bind for the FD groupies. Throughout Crikey there are columns and blogs written and controlled by the writers themselves, I would have thought FD fitted into that catagory. Luke Buckmaster, Possum, Poll Bludger and Ben Sandilands are four examples. And, to a greater, or lesser degree the major part of the publication comes under the aegis of the Moderator, human or otherwise. I might get something really edgy under the radar of this lot, before going over to FD only to cop a moderator is watching notice for saying Mary had a little lamb.
The strange spaceship noises were due to a malfunctioning set of traffic lights down the road from me.
I bring you bad tidings. Grip yourself hard. Someone has snitched your beautiful Jerboa-ouch, sorry, Gerbera avatar. Is nothing sacred? It’s a bloke, but I’ve not heard of him before. See ya and love V.
Venise Alstergren
March 5, 2012 at 11:28 pmPS: Re moderation. In the political dept, usually on one of Bernard Keane’s articles, appears a right-wing troll who thinks nothing of writing up to a hundred posts per article. As most of these are repetitive trolling they use up endless space and contribute nothing to the discussion. That’s where people should be under a certain limit per article.
Anyway, bedtime for me.
Venise Alstergren
March 5, 2012 at 11:37 pmPS: Not quite. I discovered the guilty party and as she/he has your pseudonym in the title, I imagine it is you……clever.
Innocent Until
March 6, 2012 at 12:04 pmIt is just me mouthing off. 🙂