April 27, 2026

"Comments should go up immediately... unless you're commenting on a post older than 4 days."

That's the new message above the compose-a-comment window.

I just widened the instant posting window from 2 days to 4 days. Enjoy! And thanks for keeping the conversation going.

AND: This post originally had 2 tags: "Althouse comments community" and "the Althouse comments community." This happens from time to time. I discover there are 2 tags for the same thing. It may be hard to believe, but even in this my 23rd year of blogging, I'm devoted to the good order of the archive. I clicked both tags, determined that the one with the "the" had more posts and added a "the" to all the the-less ones. So click on "the Althouse comments community" if you want to see all the old posts on the topic. There are a lot! 

10 comments:

Aggie said...

I would say 'much appreciated', but the thanks go to you as always, for providing this experience for all.

CJinPA said...

No comment

Jamie said...

Whenever it occurs to me to muse on the subject, I'm so impressed with our host's industry and commitment.

n.n said...

Si. Si. Mucha Althouse.

RCOCEAN II said...

Thanks for the link. I was rummaging through the old posts and found this:

"My (Althouse) emailed response:

"Could you clarify the purpose of this kind of post?"
No.
Think your own thoughts."

End Althouse Response.

Biff said...

Admiration.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

It is a labor of...love? Or perhaps completion, or even obsessiveness. I find that only a few of my readers (one a retired UWisc - Madison physics professor) care about posts more than a week old. Yet I occasionally appreciate the service by the host on sites I frequent.

Known Unknown said...

I am a late commenter who likes to go back to threads to see what might still be going on, so this is nice.

Mr. D said...

Thank you - there are some threads that don't peter out and it's good to see where they go.

FormerLawClerk said...

People aren't commenting because you BAN the most prolific commenters.

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Please use the comments forum to respond to the post. Don't fight with each other. Be substantive... or interesting... or funny. Comments should go up immediately... unless you're commenting on a post older than 4 days. Then you have to wait for us to moderate you through. It's also possible to get shunted into spam by the machine. We try to keep an eye on that and release the miscaught good stuff. We do delete some comments, but not for viewpoint... for bad faith.