Your Comments Please! (reprise)

First of all, I want to apologize to all and any who have left comments to any of my recent posts, but until now have not seen them published. This number includes my friends Bob Johnson, Paul Parris and perhaps others. Apparently sometime in the recent past, the provider, Blogger.com changed the rules.

I used to get a notice whenever I signed on that there were "(number) comments awaiting moderation" meaning that a reader had left a comment for me to review and decide whether or not to publish all or part of that comment. Apparently they are no longer making this notification. I recently went to the comment section to see when the last time was that I had received a comment, only to find that there were several comments, left over the past several months "awaiting moderation"!

It appears that what I am going to have to do is to sign on regularly to the comment section and check for your comments, which I will do.

In my first post, back in 2006, I invited your "respectful" comments to each and every post that I made. A short time later I posted the title "Your Comments Please" (7 September, 2007), in which I wrote:

"I value what my readers have to say and it lets me know not only that you are reading but it [also] gives the added dimension of combining your comments along with mine ton give a broader picture of what we are [all] thinking."

I continue to extend this invitation. Over the past decade I have published all comments offered by my readers in their entirety, with the exception of two or three instances that were personal in nature, and what the commentors had to say had nothing to do with the post that they dropped comment on. I remember one in particular that the commentor mentioned something personal to the extent that I thought it might be embarrassing to them if I were to publish it.

So please feel free to leave your respectful comments that are free from name-calling and innuendo, etc., and I will be proud to publish them with the post.

Thanks for sharing this moment with me today.