HAVRE DAILY CORRECTOR BLOG IMPROVEMENTS

Since we sent out our “invitation” to solicit readers and participants to the Havre Daily Corrector over two months ago we have been building a readership rapidly but have also incurred some problems and have learned some things about blogging and the “anonymous” comments that have come with our posts. We have been getting a fair amount of spam postings linking to other web-sites, some not suitable for viewing here, and in addition wastes our time continually deleting the offending comments. We are taking steps to stop that practice. While we will still allow anyone to comment here we are beginning to moderate comments to blog posts that are over twenty days old as we have noticed most spam is sent as comments to older posts. You can still leave comments on those older posts but may see a delay in the posting of your comment until we can review it to make sure it is not spam.


Secondly, there is no selection in the settings for this blog where we can eliminate anonymous posting without requiring commenter’s to register either with a Google account or an OpenID account. People commenting can still be anonymous but must first register as a user of this Google Blogger. It is easy and doesn’t track or publish your e-mail. Those that have already registered find it easier sign in before commenting then those that have to type a name in each time and we hope you understand our reasons for making this a requirement. As a benefit to registering to a Google account you can also receive a free e-mail address which you can use to e-mail us those “anonymous” tips and at the same time give us a place where we can respond personally and privately to each of you without your identity being compromised. Some of you may even already have an OpenID account as it is used in MySpace, flickr, facebook, wordpress, AOL and other places on the internet.

The Havre Daily Corrector is a work in progress and we thank you for understanding.

To register for a free Google account click here:  https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=blogger&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Floginz%3Fd%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.blogger.com%252Fcomment.g%253FblogID%253D4492931707682284644%2526postID%253D282474345378452303%2526page%253D0%2526token%26a%3DADD_SERVICE_FLAG&hl=en&sendvemail=true&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com%2Floginz%3Fd%3D%252Fhome%26a%3DSERVICE_ONLY&naui=8 

To register for a free OpenID account click here:  http://openid.net/get-an-openid/