when you polish the floor you have to move the tree
A little housekeeping on this lovely spring morning, cher public. Starting today, commenters will be required to log in to the site. Most of you are already signed up and logged in as it is, so this new condition will mostly apply to new visitors to parterre.com. The login will be helpful to La Cieca in keeping spam out of the comments and in filtering out the rare hit-and-run insult that shows up from time to time here.
La Cieca thanks you for your patience and your understanding, and asks you to remember that she doesn’t hate you, she hates the dirt.
A second here for armerjacquino’s bafflement at the heat on our indulgent hostess. Also, participants who are worried about censorship may not have noticed that in spite of the spam filter and Cieca’s hard work, earlier today a flurry of real spambot spam infiltrated the comments on a long-dead thread. Surely that’s the the kind of thing this is mainly about, not divergent points of view.
frankly, I think La Cieca has been more than patient. I’ve been coming to this site for over 2 years, and have seen more than enough flaming (and not in a good way).
YAAAAAY La Cieca!
I can totally understand the rationale behind it. I have a very personal blog that I keep a very close circle of friends and family on, and even the spam culling required for that on that drives me batty. I can also understand it from an antagonism relief measure, shall we say. Which is vastly different than censorship.
I meant to type “AS” an antagonism relief measure, not “from”. Long day. Must quit typing, and start listening to teh opera.
I’m just trying to see if I’m really logged in or not. I’m one of the OLD ones, one of the most tech-challenged ones, so this might end up over on Opera-L in the Albert-Rosen-Zucker flame war threads. (Remember, I saw Malibran and Pasta and Grisi. Deep dark secret you do not want to hear: they used almost no vibrato.) I just have so much trouble with you young people and your constantly-changing technologies. (Deep sigh for the Mapleson cylinders. Two minutes was long enough for Jean de Reszke, if you catch my drift.)
I had not registered with WordPress before (always using my Blogspot/Google “handle” to sign in for commenting), but I found the process extremely simple and not at all unpleasant. Anything to keep La Cieca’s site fresh for viewing. Sadly, there does not appear to be that very helpful box below my comment — as I type it — that shows what the ultimate post would look like, once submitted. Please bring that feature back, if you can.
Two minutes was enough for most of the men in my life.
I’m just pleased that, at my age, I could remember my password……
I found the logging almost impossible. My old password didn’t work. I got three new ones-only the last worked! I like La Cieca’s new policy. Some covered by pseudonisms write comments that lack decorum. Anyone has the right to be critical of a singer’s performance, but name-calling, like “bitch” and “pig” do not serve any purpose. BTW, I always use my full name.