As for Wikipedia, the bureaucracy, I tried to email my concern about Solomon’s treatment and the unfounded disparagement of the incomparable Benny Peiser to someone in executive management to investigate the editor involved.

Have you ever tried to email a person of executive authority at Wikipedia? The system impossible. What is not virtually indigestible is functionally inpenetrable.

This is neither a good sign, or an indication of a well-balanced self-regulating organization.

Try setting it higher and see if that causes any problems. My spam filter (Akismet) is pretty good at catching the spam comments. Whether it or the 4-link limit is keeping the spam composed of 50+ links to porn sites is immaterial to me: they get blocked.

–|PW|–

On that page, you’ll find a place where you can set the number of links permitted before moderation is enforced.

This assumes you’re using WP 2.5, btw. If you’re using an earlier version, the steps will be similar, but I can’t guarantee they’ll be the same. I find four links is generally adequate for comments, but of course YMMV.

But just try to get a webcomic up, and unless it’s Penny Arcade, it won’t stay there for long.

Well, Penny Arcade is a special kind of awesome. I got Gabe to draw Jesus on a poster I purchased from them in ’06. The rule was he’d draw any character that showed up in a Penny Arcade strip and Jesus shows up, well, a bunch.

The look both Gabe and Tycho gave me was kewl. It was clear they’d never gotten that request before. Upon my request they noted that Jesus was exactly what the poster was missing.

Anyway, your comment is released. ;-)

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