Friday, March 28, 2008

New SETI post . . .
Posted by Mac at 8:47 PM
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great post. I tried commenting but it appears to be broken. I enter the correct code and I get: "Error: Invlaid validation code entered. Comment not saved." Which is ironic because I was trying to say: "8. Our reality is a simulation, a buggy one that requires UFOs to mask otherwise fatal errors."

9:03 PM
Mac said...

:-)

Try again later. It sounds like a problem on SETI.com's end to me.

10:14 PM
dr. x said...

Hmmm--I just posted a couple comments there within the last hour, and had no problems.

Oddly, however, unlike blogger/blogspot, more recent comments are appended _above_ older comments, the opposite of how comments display here (which is oldest first, followed by more recent or newer comments below or following).

I wish seti.com did it like here--the comment thread would be more linear, and thus more comprehensible, especially when at least part of a newer comment is in reference to a prior comment. You also cannot use any non-alphanumeric characters in the "name" field, like . / ^ etc.

Any way you might be able to get seti.com to change the comment order, Mac, if you agree that might make the comments read better or more logically?

11:02 PM
W.M. Bear said...

And while you're at it, get them to make it easier to post a comment in general. As I recall, last time I tried, it took me four or five tries before the comment "took."

1:24 AM