Related-ivity and Blog Comments

[hrj]

Clearly my impulse to mirror The Theory of Related-ivity somewhere besides my Alpennia log was the correct decision, because I'm getting far more engagement (which implies far more readers) on File 770 than on my blog.

I was double-checking to confirm that I did actually get one comment on the blog and noticed something interesting that I'm not sure is correct. According to the "approved comments" index, while I've gotten an average of one comment per month on the blog in the last year (and thank goodness we've finally set up a filter that successfully blocks the deluge of spam comments), according to the index, I received NO comments in the previous 7 years.

I don't think that's right. I mean, I whine a lot (though mostly inside my head) about not stimulating conversations on the blog, but I'm pretty sure I got at least a few comments between June 2018 and June 2025! But since I get them so rarely, it would be a lot of work to scroll back through the blog and search to see if there are comments on the posts that simply aren't showing up in the index for some reason.

Does anyone remember commenting on my Alpennia blog within the last 7 years and remember what you commented on to help narrow the process?

Comments

[hairmonger]

I am quite sure I commented on the Alpennia blog at some point, but when and what I have no idea. As you can see, I tend to catch up with things in large chunks.

(Just today I recommended it to someone I've known online for many years. I hope she likes it. She's a writer.)

Mary Anne in Kentucky

[hrj]

My website people suspect the comment thing is either some unfortunate byproduct of updating the spam filter, or a byproduct of Drupal versioning. (I love the functionality of having my website built in Drupal, but I do have anxieties around not having the expertise to manage it myself.)