Comments on: Science Fact

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:14:19 +0000

@Kelvin

Yes, the comments did in fact show in my feed. I was confused about what date was today.

@Nelson

I get the comments feed so I don’t have to manually monitor each recent posting page. It’s a very efficient way to waste time and laugh at alliterative animal orifice references.

Further to the main RSS feed, on Google Reader it’s showing this:
Not Your Typical BNP Voters (1 Jul) = full
Deep Thought (3 Jul) = title only
Too Speedy (6 Jul) = full
Hot In Burkha (6 Jul) = title only
THEN ALL POSTS UP TO
Millions of Tiny Propellors (15 Jul) = title only
Massive Rhys (16 Jul = today) = start, then “[...]”

A further note: I read the RSS file using the handy perl script, and the Rhys entry shows the “description” element with “[...]“, but the “content:encoded” element has the full text. The Propell[oe]rs entry shows the same in the raw feed, but not on Google Reader which seems to have cached it as above.

So, it appears that you’ve configured your feed to truncate the “description” element, which you didn’t have previously. Hope this helps.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:58:46 +0000

Don’t be daft. Course we work for the beeb. It’s people like us that ensure the world ignores the important opinions of people like Neil. He’s brilliant and insightful and so we have to work very hard to make everyone dismiss him as a tit. It’s the only thing that could explain why nobody takes him seriously.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:43:55 +0000

Oh, Neil, for future reference, this site doesn’t moderate comments (unlike yours, what are you scared of? )

Well Nelson, it’s like this. When you’re posting on a site that’s run by Hooray Henrys and dedicated to schoolboy humour, it is obviously of paramount importance that your freedom of speech is protected. Whereas when you’re posting on an important grown-up political blog it’s vitally important that you don’t say anything to upset the blog owner.

Also I sent an invoice to Mark Thompson but it came back unpaid with a note saying “fuck off” and a restraining order. Does this mean we don’t work for the beeb after all?

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:35:09 +0000

Ed – they show up for me. Maybe you have a caching issue somewhere upstream?

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:35:05 +0000

Oh, Neil, for future reference, this site doesn’t moderate comments (unlike yours, what are you scared of? ). So if you don’t see your comment immediately, then it didn’t work and you should try again.

Your huge comment above is an exception… if you include lots of links and make it really long and boring, Wordpress suspects it might be ~~written by a boring cunt~~ spam, so I have to approve it first.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:32:22 +0000

You get the SYB comments feed??? Seek medical attention

Even I don’t read the comments here. Apart from now. I’m reading them now.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:30:46 +0000

I told Nelson a Commodore 64 with a thickwire adaptor made from a couple of bent bobby pins wasn’t up to the job, but would he listen to me? No, he was too busy texting 1984RFR and cackling as he deleted Neil’s posts.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:27:03 +0000

I get the SYB comments feed and the above comments didn’t show in my feed. I think your WP installation is a bit ill.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:14:21 +0000

Yeah.. good point. There’s some sort of problem with “WP Supercache” on my ISP that makes everything shit. The site was down a lot yesterday apparently. Several people noticed and emailed me (all of them presumed it was a problem with WordPress, rather than a personal attack on them, the gullible fools!).

I was out all day though (doing my BBC job, promoting Hamas and sex in primary schools).

Had a look through the logs Neil, and I can see 9 HTTP POST requests to wp-comments-post.php which may or may not have been you attempting to post stuff. It’s hard to tell. But I can only find 5 of your actual comments. So there you go. Mystery solved! Turns out nobody was out to get you after all! All you needed to do was keep trying until the site accepted your comment. But I guess you were a bit too busy bringing down the establishment.

Is there really any point patiently trying to work this out with you? Or are you still wanking over the idea that someone thought your swoony arse piss was worth suppressing?

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:35:47 +0000

Neil, we don’t censor comments here because frankly we’re too damn lazy. But I do know that sometimes this site gets into a strange mood where it decides everything you post is spam and dumps it, even before it reaches the Akismet plugin that’s supposed to deal with spam. Oddly though the site must keep a hash of the post, because if you try and repost it, it accuses you of repeating yourself. I see it happen to plenty of my own comments, even when I’m logged in on the back end. They don’t show up in the pending comments box and Nelson tells me they don’t show up in Akismet either. So when this happens we have literally no idea that something’s even been posted.

So let me ask, after you posted your comments and the page refreshed, did you see that the comment had been successfully submitted, or is it possible the site broke another elastic band and lost them somewhere along the way?