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I liked a post. How do I find more like it?
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I posted a comment and it vanished. Did I break something?
Not at all. Guest comments wait in a queue until one of our moderators approves them, and only then do they appear under the post. A comment that never gets approved is cleared out of the queue after 30 days.
What kind of comments get approved?
Kind, on-topic ones. Questions, thank-yous and polite disagreement are all lovely. Spam and rudeness don’t make it through. The details are in Be kind.
I made a typo. Can I edit my comment?
Sadly not by yourself, because guest comments aren’t linked to an account. We can remove it for you, though: go to the contact page, choose “My data and privacy”, and give us the post link and the name you commented under.
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Please do. Your profile has a spot for a website link, and posts can include regular links to your site and to your sources.
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Ask us through the contact page and say which posts should go, or whether it’s the whole blog. We’ll take them down.
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