Thursday, 2 August 2007

Blog Comment Policy

I've chosen to allow comments, but only moderated comments. This comes after much consideration. Joel Spolsky, of Joel on Software, has a good restatement of Dave Winer's arguement for why comments on blogs are not a good thing. I mostly agree, and I will set my moderation standard pretty high. I'll only pass through comments that I think significantly add the conversation. Things that should get a "(Score:5, Informative)" if they were a Slashdot comment. Otherwise, I might respond with email. This all has the added benefit of reducing and simplifying my spam fighting tasks.

Sooner or later somebody will get ticked and complain that I censored them, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I censored you. I censored you from spouting your drivel using the web server I pay for because I deem your drivel to polluted my own. Don't like it? I don't care. Get your own blog. Feel free to send angry follow up emails, so that I can stroke my delusions self-importance when I ignore you dismissively.

Posted by spout at 5:15 PM in the internet, web, web 2.0 and beyond
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SyntaxHighlighting CSS issue

It turns out there's a slight problem with the CSS from the syntax highlighting library I discussed in my previous post More precisly, something with blojsom has a negative interaction with it. The issue is rather prominent if I turn off the "nocontrols" directive. Viz: 
public interface EqualityHelper {
    
    public EqualityHelper forObject(Object baseObject);
    
    public boolean isEqual(Object other);
    
    public int getHash();

}
Notice how the green line isn't continuous. It should look like this, which is the same except not wrapped by blojsom. This is obviously some kind of CSS interaction issue, but I'm not enough of an uber web monkey to see the problem immediately.
Posted by spout at 4:24 PM in the internet, web, web 2.0 and beyond
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