If you left a comment in the past week, they're still there, and I will trudge through the spam soon

I've been on vacation for the past week and a bit, and I've been through some of the unpublished comments, 99.9 percent of which are usually spam. But everything's still sitting on the Movable Type server, and I'll comb through it by the end of this coming week.

I'm sure we'll be changing the comments programming at some point in the near future, but if you want your comments to appear immediately, sign up for a Typekey account and leave a comment while signed in to Typekey. Where last I left the most recent insidesocal.com blog redesign, the sign-in was broken, so you pretty much have to sign in through the Typekey site, after which the Insidesocal server will recognize your sign-in. I do plan to fix the lack of a sign-in when I return and figure out how to do it.

Anyway ... if you do get a Typekey account and sign-in and subsequently leave a comment on this blog, I will register you as a "trusted" commenter, after which your comments will publish immediately.

For those who want to know: I get maybe 500 spam comments a day, none of which are automatically published. Unfortunately, the spam filter in Movable Type 4 is pretty awful, and it pretty much marks everything as spam ... or not. I wonder how some of these spam comments get through (although I have nothing but trusted Typekey comments set to publish automatically), since I can't seem to write a comment in this system that gets past the spam filter. In other words, the thing is pretty well broken.

But again, for the time being, sign up for Typekey, log in from there (and eventually from here), post a comment and I'll set you to publish automatically.

Thanks for playing.