ask Hal a question

4/4/2018

This is a place for you to ask me questions about the new Electronic Cottage.
Just click on Comments, fill out the form, and ask your question.

14 Comments

Jerry Kranitz

4/5/2018 03:49:44

Hal... do you have experience with blog and the Comments feature? I ask because when in 2012 I discontinue regularly scheduled AI "issues" and had a blog installed as an ancillary to the site for ongoing reviews, I got blasted with bots posting advertising comments. I then enabled the feature where comments would be submitted for my approval before posting and the chore got so overwhelming that I just ended up disabling comments altogether. Just curious what yours, or others, experiences with this has been.

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 08:19:45

Jerry, I have been using the BLOG feature on my personal website and I have not experienced any problems with spam. I do not anticipate any problems here in this blog either, because I have two forms of Spam Protection enabled: Smart CAPTCHA and Smart Moderation. I have sent a request to Weebly Support asking them to explain how those things work.

Frank link

4/11/2018 19:42:16

Hi Hal,

Congrats! In a very short time EC, is really getting to be a nice place to contribute and hang around!

question: have you got an idea how it comes that most of the time my website doesn't show up in the comments? You know what I mean... the little arrow after my name, when I give a comment.

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 00:17:51

Frank, thank you for the question. You can see below that I did a TEST. I entered my website address into the Comment Form and it worked correctly. Are you entering the exact URL? Example - http://www.haltapes.com/

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 00:10:00

TEST

Frank p link

4/12/2018 01:18:00

https://frankaudiffret.wixsite.com/fjna

https://fjna.bandcamp.com

I tried with those and mostly it doesn't work.

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 01:40:39

I am going to test it, Frank

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 01:41:35

another test

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 01:43:28

yet another test

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 01:47:23

testtesttest

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 01:48:37

TESTTESTTESTTEST

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 01:49:23

TESTY TEST

Hal McGee link

4/12/2018 01:52:27

Frank, I think that I have solved the mystery! Do not put https:// in the address.
frankaudiffret.wixsite.com/fjna
works fine and so does
fjna.bandcamp.com

Frank link

4/12/2018 02:34:02

Hal, you are a genius! I hope you can delete some of the Test test test-stuff. Thanks a lot!