The Black Republican

I've been getting a little bored from the lack of comment traffic, and frankly I miss what little banter we'd seen from the occasional reader. So, I went out looking and found a present to put under the tree for you all.

I've opened the comments section back up to unregistered posters, though for now your entries will be moderated. (If you're willing to register, you won't be burdened with that hassle.) I'm doing this with the assistance of a new plugin that automatically closes the comment option for posts older than 14 days - which still pretty much closes the door to comment spam, since for some reason they don't like to hit fairly recent posts. I might be persuaded to extend the window out to 28 days, or to open the comments back up to unmoderated posts, but I'm hesitant to try these at the start; I want to see if we get any trouble from even the more restrictive limits first.

This is, of course, a trial period. I reserve the option to lock us back down again at the slightest sign of the spammers.

Have fun, and Merry Christmas to all.

UPDATE: I also switched us to dynamic page generation, a nifty option that should make the site itself (as well as the back-end for our contributors) a little faster. If you appreciate the efforts, I know something you can do to make my Christmas a little brighter. Then again, there's always cash.