Comments on: REPRIEVE! Radio Wibbi to stay on air

By: Ideal Gov administrator

Ideal Gov administrator — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:10:42 +0000

Richard – i quite agree. The comment moderation has had a damping effect (and also is a pain to do being clunky in EE). Harry at DXW is helping with this – I’ll ask about it tomorrow.

Thanks all for comments & emails. – W

By: Richard S

Richard S — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:14:58 +0000

Thanks GNM, both for this and for supporting the Ideal Government Project. Sadly, I can no longer claim that “I write for the Guardian”!

When the blog is rebuilt, is there any way that we could return to “post” moderation of comments; especially the comments from registered users?

The “pre” moderation of comments, introduced to combat spammers, made everything so slow and reduced the old vibrancy where we would have several generations of useful comments within just a few hours.

I suggest disabling hyperlinks in comments, and particularly in signatures & authors’ names – allowing them only to point to an author’s personal page on the blog. Perhaps this would make the blog less attractive to spammers?

Also, with the approaching General Election which is bound to raise relevant issues; We’ll have to decide how to handle any political aspects.

By: Chris Jakeman

Chris Jakeman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:09:22 +0000

Delighted to hear the good news.

There is so much to moan about in government, but this site takes a positive approach instead. WIBBI is such a brilliant idea, and I first saw it here.

By: Dave Birch

Dave Birch — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:36:02 +0000

Thanks GNM.

By: Sam Liddicott

Sam Liddicott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:49:27 +0000

hurrah hurrah hurrah !!!
1 hurrah for you
1 hurrah for GNM
1 hurrah for us all
(one ! each too, as I’m feeling very happy).

Thanks to all at IDEAL GOVERNMENT ant to the sponsors for being generous.