I wanted to make a quick point on comments. All comments are welcome, and the more the merrier. My hope is for the Waterfront Watch blog to become more of a forum than anything else (be it a more elegant forum with links, photos, videos, etc., and not just your run-of-the-mill Yahoo! Group). If you have an opinion on anything, please post a comment.

The reason that comments are not immediately posted and require approval — the only reason — is spam comments. You actually wouldn’t believe how many spam comments are submitted to the blog. It is quite ridiculous. I would rather keep the blog open, meaning people can post comments anonymously (not requiring a username/password), but this inherently invites spam comments. As a result, I approve the comments, and I try to do so immediately. So if there is any delay in your comment being posted, that is the only reason why.

Moving forward, I would like to someday remove the approval process, and once the number of authentic comments is greater than the number of spam comments, I will feel comfortable in doing so. Spam comments are easy to spot, so in the context of a list of comments, readers will be able to glance through them without noticing. Currently, some posts would have a dozen or so spam comments, which look like (a real example)…

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Unless that is our wild friends in Victoria by the Bay playing tricks with us, I would rather keep those comments off the blog. For now at least. Thank you for your patience.

I should mention, however, that if you would like to bypass the comment approval process, feel free to create an account.