Something is rotten in the land of Blogger
I and at least one other blogger I know of have had this problem with comments: the commenter had thought s/he successfully posted a comment but returns later to find that the comment is not, in fact, there. I know about the other blogger because this very thing happened to me this morning at that other blog.
This sucks for all sorts of technical and, even more importantly, social reasons, and I sincerely apologize to each and all if you find this has happened to you. I assure you I don't know what the problem is.
For the time being, I've disabled the notorious Word Verification function, which is (I know, I know) an oh-so-royal pain in the posterior under the best of circumstances. My hope is that doing that will fix things. I'll just have to take my chances with spammers until a) the problem gets fixed or b) pack up my little old blog and head over to WordPress or Typepad.
I'm going on about this because I am exceedingly grateful to those of you who take the time to post a comment, and the last thing I want is for anyone to presume that I have deleted comments without explanation. I'd rather spend some time deleting spam than have to spend time repairing relationships threatened by misunderstandings over stuff like this.
If you have or have had trouble recently posting comments here, please inform me so I can make some further noise over at the Blogger forum. You may reach me at blogmeridian (at) sbcglobal (dot) net.
Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding.
