ATTN: Blogger Bloggers

Did you know you can now have threaded comments? I didn't see an announcement but just noticed it on my own blog and checked it out. A nice improvement. Now, if we could only block undesirable assholes.

Enabling threaded commenting

If you have commenting enabled on your blog, then threaded commenting will work provided you have your blog feed set to "Full," and have chosen the “Embedded" option as opposed to “Full page” or “Popup window.” To change your commenting settings, just go to the Comments section under Settings | Posts and comments. The setting to change your blog feed can be found under Settings | Other.

Notifications

A threaded commenting system means more discussion and back-and-forth dialogue. If you’d like to be notified of any updates to a discussion, just click “Follow by email” to subscribe to the thread. This way, you’ll be notified via email so you can keep up with the conversation. Keep in mind that this is a different subscription than the “Follow by email” gadget used to follow another blogger’s blog posts.

Moving from Blogger to WordPress

The fascism series has to be put on hold. I'm absolutely furious with Blogger and am going to make the jump to WordPress. Along with many other users and for the second time in two weeks I can't sign in. It'll be interesting to see if this posts. I can read my blog and link to and leave comments on other blogs but I can't leave a comment on my own damn blog.

When I try to comment, I select the profile (Google Acct.) and hit "Post Comment.  This takes me to the sign in page. I put in email and password and get a comment form back that has "Anonymous." When I hit "Post Comment" it just takes me back to the sign in page. Some people get a little red bar underneath the  comment form.

I would appreciate any advice from WordPress users - pros, cons, pitfalls to avoid, etc. Keep in mind that I can't respond in the comments, so email or Facebook might be best.

I have run virus protection twice - nothing beyond the usual mild threats.

This will take some time. Stress is high and I have no money or cigs.  Blar.