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Hi Phil,
Are posts closed for comments after a specific amount of time, or is it based on activity, or something else? For example, the Audi A4 Review was September 7th, not *that* long ago, and comments are closed after about 3.5 months and just four comments?
It is a default anti-spam feature of WordPress and it is time-based. Spammers like to add comments to years-old postings.
Just another example of how cash-hungry and clever humans have defeated most of the dreams of the Internet pioneers. Nobody engineering this stuff back in 1970 imagined armies of spammers.
When I click on “moderation” I see this:
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When I click on the page itself, I do not see my comment. When I visit the page in incognito mode I do see my comment. Perhaps caching is set wrong?
It was in the early new reports
The new engines hang lower and forward so as not to reengineer the whole plane that feel they needed an anti stall system. That was not a problem there lack of notice and poor engineering on the system mixed with poor Asian piolets very bad training( southwest knew of the problem and there piolets were trained enough to actually fly a plain) remember lion air is band for us service Boeing ? Selling them plaines but it was to big to pass. Boeing had to train piolets for mChina years ago . CHINA with help has become very good. Not so in Asia south culture is different.
Further to this comment by “perplexed”,
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/03/08/resisting-on-international-womens-day/#comment-366194
I too am seeing comments apparently disappear without trace on pressing “Post Comment”. There’s no “awaiting moderation” message or anything. My last comment did actually appear after a delay of about an hour. I wonder what will happen with this comment…
(And thanks for the blog, BTW)
Fixed! There was an issue with the nginx cache being purged due to an SSL certificate update. It should work now! Thanks for highlighting.
My comment about 17 hours ago on the post “British Medical Journal…” disappeared into moderation – in case that wasn’t intentional. Let’s see where this goes…
According to my browser, the site’s TLS certificate expired on “Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:59:59 GMT”.
Can you please reload? I installed a new certificate and restarted just a few minutes ago!
All good now, thank you.
I called Bosch today. They were extremely snippy. They told me it would cost $10 a wheel or four wheels for $40. I will never buy another Bosch dishwasher again $1000 for nothing but frustration they know it’s a design floor and now they want to charge to correct it.