The Comments posting software here has not been working for the past 2.5 days. I apologise to all who’ve tried to submit comments since then.
So here’s what I’ve done. I’ve set up an entire parallel blog for JWN comments over at Blogspot.
You need to register as a Blogger user to submit comments over there. Many of you have already done that, since I see you commenting over at Juan Cole’s blog. Anyway, it’s easy to do.
Unlike Juan, I do not intend to pre-moderate comments that are submitted. So the discussion at JWN COMMENTS can hopefully be just as rich as we have been having over here. I require commenters to stick to the same discourse-enhancing guidelines there that I have developed over here. And there will be the same level of continuing moderation of the Comments discussions there.
The parallel Comments blog may or may not be a longterm thing. Comments-handling over here with my Movable Type software has become much, much harder recently. I’ve been thinking of putting a visual screening system into the Comments template here, but haven’t yet figured how to do it. Blogger software already has one. That should cut out most of the spambotting that has been clogging up the Comments software here.
So here’s the URL again: http://jwn-comments.blogspot.com/. Head on over and let’s try to resume our discussions over there.