It's so nice when people take notice

In one of my crankypants phases the other day I shot a message on Twitter off to @Kiama Library as they had posted a list of blog posts like the group below that they sent out yesterday.

Kiama Library tweets 3 Feb 2014

I find it annoying when these automated posts appear on my Twitter stream all in a row (there were about six the other day) and wish that those responsible would combine them into something like "We just posted a series of  fabulous photos to Facebook. Please take a look at ........". 

Surely one Tweet would have more impact than a series of similar posts that are repetitive (and boring?) and a trifle SPAMMY.

This whinge is along the lines of what I posted the other day about a similar practice on Facebook in a post entitled "How much is enough?"

I must acknowledge the @KiamaLibrary's Sunday tweeter who sent off  polite and hasty response to my tweet. Thanks you for your good natured response to my suggestion.

I didn't want to do it...

...but I did.

I have tried moderating comments for posts over one day old on the Geniaus blog and each day I am faced with more and more comments to moderate. It is so hard to sift out the genuine comments from the rubbish. Please accept my apologies if I have lost one of your comments amongst the garbage.

This morning I have turned moderation off and word verification on to see if that will help. I apologise to those people who are regular commenters on the blog. Please do not let this deter you as I really appreciate the conversations that the comments deliver.

I just had to do it...

As I think blogging is a two way street I like to make it easy for people to post comments on my blog.

Lately the number of spam comments that are getting through and being published has skyrocketed. This ruins the flow of conversations that sometimes happen on a post so I have changed my settings to only allow it easy to comment on posts less than two days old. For comments posted after this period I will have to approve them.

I will see if this works. If the spammers continue to get through I will have to turn moderation on for all comments - something I don't want to do.