To my dear friends who read this weblog,
Thank you for all your wonderful and community-building comments. Unfortunately, I have had to temporarily shut down the comments section (even though the comments box is still there) of this weblog due to the criminal activity of assholes who would pollute the world with perverse and nasty comments. These pernicious comments have moved beyond automatic spamming and are now being entered by hand by some depraved individual. I'm so mad I can hardly think straight about that. But anyways, this weblog will bear it no longer. I don't need the extra stress hormones in my bloodstream going to my sweet baby. Anyone that actually knows me can e-mail me if they have any comments. Soon, we will figure out a more permanent solution to this problem, but it's going to take some major changes to deal with this threat. We will probably need to change out of Movable Type to some other system with better security measures like a password or login kind of deal to make this weblog safe for well-intentioned people such as yourselves. I'm sorry that anyone has had to see the awful words people have put up on this site. We've been trying to deal with it in a less intrusive way than closing comments, but haven't been able to shut down the nastiness that way. So that's it for now. I'll keep writing! I will not be stopped by any puny attempts at intimidation, thank you very much.
Posted by Bahiyyih at November 18, 2004 09:15 AM