New comments policy -- please clean up your act
We love our commenters, but lately more and more readers have been abusing the "Enter" key in leaving comments on this blog. Whether it's careless or intentional, it's ugly, and it's a pain in the neck for yours truly to edit. And so with great reluctance, we're instituting a new policy here, effective immediately: If a comment concludes with one or more blank lines at the end, or two or more more consecutive blank lines in the middle, then rather than clean it up, we are going to take the comment down, without notice, in its entirety. Sooner or later, the serial offenders will get the hang of it.
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Comments (5)
Is this
what you mean?
Posted by Pom Mom of LO | August 14, 2012 7:43 AM
I think he means this.
Or perhaps this.
Posted by TacoDave | August 14, 2012 11:08 AM
Not sure that I understand what you're talking about, here, Jack. I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary - or were you housecleaning before I arrived?
Posted by Max | August 14, 2012 12:52 PM
No problem. FYI, one of the reasons people aren't mindful of this is that there are comments systems out there which clean that stuff up auto-magically. One becomes jaded.
Posted by dyspeptic | August 14, 2012 1:00 PM
Just so you know, Jack, I haven't forgotten about this, just trying to wrap my head around the code involved to make it work with your blog back end. :-)
Posted by Jake | August 16, 2012 9:25 PM