Comments on: Registrations https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/08/09/registrations/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Rana https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/08/09/registrations/comment-page-1/#comment-7901 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:46:33 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1702#comment-7901 My reaction to the changed commenting system? Bless you, sir, bless you. I have a terrible time with WordPress every time I come here – it doesn’t remember me, it sends up a sign-in form that my browser can’t auto-fill the password on, and it doesn’t allow you to set your own password, so any time I wished to comment here, it required digging around in my mail files or a total reset.

Now, it may be that this discouraged me from leaving flip comments and only writing ones that were worth all that effort, but I feel such a relief knowing that I can now respond when ideas are fresh in mind, not poorly remembered some twenty minutes later.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/08/09/registrations/comment-page-1/#comment-7774 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:55:38 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1702#comment-7774 Yeah, we were talking about that here as well. It’s clearly the .edu that’s attracting the swarms of user registrations. Probably will attract spam comments as well.

]]> By: Leslie M-B https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/08/09/registrations/comment-page-1/#comment-7769 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:18:12 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1702#comment-7769 The problem may be that there’s a big discussion right now on some internet marketing forums about the value to search engine results of links from high-page rank .edu blogs. Marketers are sharing instructions on how to find .edu blogs that allow anyone to comment, and because Swarthmore.edu has a PR of 7, I imagine your blog is a pretty attractive place to post comments with links (apparently now both nofollow and dofollow links are attractive to marketers these days).

]]> By: Greedo https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/08/09/registrations/comment-page-1/#comment-7767 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:54:26 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1702#comment-7767 Everybody is again scum and villainy, but Han shot first and he’s the hero.

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