Well, okay, frustrating behind-the-scenes news to report about this website: I have officially gotten rid of the new Facebook-maintained commenting system that I had been trying out here this year. The problem isn't the system itself, which was actually working great (the benefit for you being that the comment would get published both here and at your Facebook profile; the benefit for me being that people are forced to use their real names, keeping hate comments to a minimum); no, the problem is that it was nearly impossible for me as a non-programmer to figure out how to actually maintain the system, and how to do such ridiculously simple things as get a notification whenever a new comment would be added, or look at a list showing all the comments that are now here. And that's a real shame, because the good folks at Facebook have made it ridiculously easy to actually add the commenting system to one's blog, even going so far as to create a cutesy little video showing you how; but when it comes to anything besides simply adding it to one's blog, suddenly it's all "comments.get API method" this and "query with your FQL Feed XID" that, and a bunch of other PHP gobbletygook I don't even begin to understand.

So anyway, it's back to the normal Movable Type commenting system again, which means back to 24-hour moderation in order to weed out spam and hate comments. Sigh. By the way, just like before, those who end up consistently leaving legitimate comments here over time (i.e. non-spam, non-hate*, while using your real name) will get upgraded by me into "trusted" status, meaning that future comments will get automatically published instead of having to wait for my approval; it's something to keep in mind whenever deciding whether or not to make your comments anonymous.

*And by the way, you're more than welcome to make critical comments here and have them approved; by "hate comments" I mean those that serve no constructive purpose and are designed specifically to be personal attacks, i.e. "You suck, Pettus." In internet slang this is known as being a "troll;" and as regular readers know, I have a zero tolerance policy here regarding trolling.