Comments on: How they built Stonehenge…and the comment situation

By: vicki abbott

vicki abbott — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:39:02 +0000

Is this still Regina Wilshire’s blog? Why does it come up under Michael Eades’ headline? Or is Regina Michael Eades’ alter ego? Or Michael Eades in drag? Where’s Regina Wilshire?

I don’t have a clue what happened. I hope you find your way back to Regina, who, BTW, is not my alter ego, but a flesh and blood woman who lives in Missouri.

Cheers–

MRE

By: gallier2

gallier2 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:47:16 +0000

Thank you Janet for the tip with the RSS feed, it’s exactly what I was missing so far.

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:53:40 +0000

I gave up trying to go back to each post to find comments, and now use the RSS feed, which means I see new comments even when they are in the middle of the list, and also the comments for older posts. I do appreciate the way you’ve set it up so that it is possible to subscribe to RSS for all comments, not just comments for an individual article, which seems more common. Your way one feed catches them all.

Thanks, Janet, but I’ll have to confess, I don’t have a clue how it’s set up. My web guy did it all, so I truly am clueless.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:20:18 +0000

Why not just add a new post at the end of your comments section (referencing the earlier post), instead of commenting in the body of the original post? A lot of other bloggers do it that way, and it seems to work well (as long as it’s clear what post they are replying to).

Hi Bryan–

I tried that for a little while, but it didn’t seem to work as well. And I get so many comments that my comment on the comments was so far down the list that it didn’t seem to make a lot of sense. I may have to revert to that way, though.

Thanks for the thought.

Cheers–

MRE

By: deirdra

deirdra — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:56:10 +0000

Very cool, and a great way to teach physics (with lighter weight objects so the safety police don’t get on your case). I’ve got some patio slabs I need to move & this has inspired me to try the technique with stones to pivot and slide them. The Stonehenge clips must be a few years old. They now have a thin rope to keep people from walking close to/between the rocks. I don’t know that a knee-level, 1/2″-thick rope would keep people out of geysers at Yellowstone, but it seems to keep people in line at Stonehenge.