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<h2 class="date">September 07, 2004</h2>

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<h3 class="title">Comments are fucked</h3>

<p>Okay, the hack I used to queue comments for approval-before-posting was a rough and dirty one, and didn't have any function for deleting all the old unallowed comments at once, which were piling up at a preposterous rate of ten or twenty spam comments a day.  So I edited the code to add the ability to erase all the comments in one fell swoop, and whatever I did (the code was rough and dirty, as I said) has totally screwed the comments database files. So comments don't work for now, until I figure out how to fix them, or if I can't, archive all the old posts and comments and start anew with a clean version of the software.</p>

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