i just discovered, after over 7 years of blogging, that there is a spam section for wayward comments to go. who knew? not me! fortunately a friend mentioned it to me. so i went to check it out. since i had NEVER even checked it before there were oh…probably 6 or 7 THOUSAND comments in there. so i deleted them all without even checking. no time! but since then i have been checking and here’s what i found:
of course while i was laughing my head off, i was also coming across lots of rattling fantastic comments from YOU that had been marked as spam. so this is all just to say that if you’ve ever left something and wondered where it was…it was in my spam drawer unbeknownst to me! and to think i’m an overly skilled blogger who let this issue float on by. i’m trying to remember to check it regularly now. as a website possessor i really owe it to my efforts. don’t i? today i went after a week and found about a dozen more comments from real live readers so i fished them out and published them. oyvey!
oh…and…yes i know all about comment moderation and spam proof super codes that must be deciphered before leaving a comment. not interested.
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Oh, Mary Ann. I have been rough-housing these crappy things for years. I put on captcha codes, I take them off. I moderate comments, I unmoderate comments. It’s a wild dance of how much maintenance I want to do with this blog thingie. I can’t stand to leave them there, so I try to keep up with deleting, but Hubert Humphrey they make me roll my eyes, SNuF briskly and hit the table with my paw, scream hysterically at the 37th delete, read them aloud to the dog with proper intonation and emphasis points, and sometimes cry with lafter.
Am I still fucking talking?
So happy to be back (in blogland) to read your delightful post! I’ve missed keeping up!
Waiting, patiently, sort of =)
Rattling fantastic, indeed. 🙂 🙂 🙂 What a great way to express admiration. I love it.
I think it was an overly skilled commenter who came up with that!
You are a rattling skilled blogger who has posted a LOT of juiciness in my absence of the last three weeks to the Northwest (where it barely rained at all) – good grief woman! Do you know how long it will take me to get all caught up? Do you know how much I will enjoy this?? Temptress…xo, Jane
MAM–for seriousness!! Put down the spam folder and tell me more about SEWN!! I’m so intrigued, curious, IMPATIENT. It’s been, like, 5 months since I’ve had a MAM class, and now I have 102 days of summer with my wild and gnashing children staring me in the eye balls. Give a bad-ass craft mom a glimmer of hope, a gem of distraction from the “moooom! Hey mom! Mama, where’s my________, He took my ________!! Mom, I’m hungry!” My plan is to buy them Legos, construct an elaborate scavenger hunt for said Legos, and dive into your class while they build. The headlines will read: Dispatch from LA saves SF Mom’s Summer Sanity with Stitches & Scissors!
XO,
Cortney
What I’ve never been able to understand is how these spam messages benefit the distributors.
I suspect there is a “spam drawer” in our memory? A wonderful invention which filters out comments and ideas that serve no purpose. But how to empty it? Loved this post!
The rattling fantastic line is by far the best ever. I will use that in my middle school English class forever.
I also hate those comment ‘super codes’. I had to start using them recently though because I have been getting explicitly sexual offensive comments. It didn’t bother ME so much, but my mom said that she wouldn’t be reading my blog anymore because of them 🙁
Ditto re: thank you for the laughsand I think about you every day here in Bergen and hope you DO NOT have to return to anything you dont love. I look forward to Sewn. Thank you for all the laughing, smiles and endless inspiration.
Dena
Ha! Cool that ‘Ralph Lauren’ thought your blog was ‘attention grabbing’. Rattling fantastic! 😉
Uhem…..was that THE Ralph Lauren?
My god! I can’t believe I never clicked where it says “spam”. I guess I thought it was empty since a number between brackets always appears next to those headings. I only had one comment there ad it wasn’t spam! Thanks for the heads up, every comment is precious to me, I’d never want to miss any!
Hahaha! Great post. I’m looking forward to the new class. You know I’ll be there! I really, really hope that you never have to go back to the compulsory government education factory. Stay here and play with us! I will be there for every class you offer.
I agree with Donna — you’d have a best seller –and that would mean more trips! 😀
I had no idea there was a spam spot. I just went through all my messages and I cannot for the life of me understand why so many people think I have a penis.
Sheesh.
Love you, MAM
So the word is out now…MAM is Ralph Lauren’s new theme inspiration!!! or maybe he’s just ready to try sewing signatures instead of fashion. And those Chinese posts are from the factories… just waiting?
AND…Thank you for not having the eyeball straining words to identify. I’m about 10 yrs past being able to see them very well. Hip Hip Horay to you!
Yes, you are SO rattling fantastic, they got it right.
Thanks for the laughs, and for the peaches too.
LOL I discovered those too not long ago and had a chuckle… luckily Blogger manages to get most of them into the correct spam folder so the “I’ve been looking all over the Internets for you” posts don’t get through… but they are pretty funny to read!
But that also explains to me why sometimes I haven’t seen a comment I have made when I looked for it wanting to make another comment! Bam! Into MAMs spam!
Hazzam! LOL-am!
Ok I will stop now.
So you’ve hit the mother-lode of comments gone missing? I’m chuckling at this as I imagine the fodder that must have been there after so many years. I’d have deleted on a dime too. The wonders of our on line worlds and the universes that circle them that are unknown to us. I see the ‘web’ much like the universe is constructed; a place of unknown worlds and unexplored places, planets and moons and many with their own unique life forms (that is an understatement)LOL as I’m sure when someone stumbles upon some of these worlds, they either run for the hills or find themselves jumping in head first without really looking. Oh the worlds we spin. My life has been truly richer since walking head first into your little square of ‘outer’ space and I’m so glad I did. The life forms and wild life have been amazing and awesome and pleased I speak the same language as the locals. xxxoooxxxx
Rattling fantastic post here, Mary Ann!!