On the road
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Posting this weekend shall be very light. Today, Saturday, I was underground all day on a survey project in a cave north of Tucson. Tomorrow I will be underground again, taking a caver’s tour of the mines in Tombstone, Arizona.
Will be back full force I think on Monday, though I might end up on the road again that day for different reasons. I figure I will post for sure late Sunday.
For many reasons, mostly political but partly ethical, I do not use Google, Facebook, Twitter. They practice corrupt business policies, while targeting conservative websites for censoring, facts repeatedly confirmed by news stories and by my sense that Facebook has taken action to prevent my readers from recommending Behind the Black to their friends.
Thus, I must have your direct support to keep this webpage alive. Not only does the money pay the bills, it gives me the freedom to speak honestly about science and culture, instead of being forced to write it as others demand.
Please consider donating by giving either a one-time contribution or a regular subscription, as outlined in the tip jar below.
Regular readers can support Behind The Black with a contribution via paypal:
If Paypal doesn't work for you, you can support Behind The Black directly by sending your donation by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman, to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.
Posting this weekend shall be very light. Today, Saturday, I was underground all day on a survey project in a cave north of Tucson. Tomorrow I will be underground again, taking a caver’s tour of the mines in Tombstone, Arizona.
Will be back full force I think on Monday, though I might end up on the road again that day for different reasons. I figure I will post for sure late Sunday.
Q: Are you choosing to clear each post yourself or is there still a program problem with the program that allows you to not have to clear each post personally?
I ask because I have noticed that posters are not able, under what appears to be this new system, to interact as directly as before which causes the conversation threads to be very shallow. I know that you have your subject and trolling dislikes and standards but it seems to have caused a dilution of the intensity of the conversation here.
I remember not long ago participating in a conversation thread that was about 62 comments deep. Now, if there are two or three comments that seems to be a lot.
The problem with spam and comments on BtB is about to be solved at last. I found a new software guy, who is in the process of cleaning up and upgrading the website. For the past four months in order to make the spam situation manageable, I have had to close comments on any posts after three weeks. This is one reasons the threads no longer last as long.
We should have these fixes ready in about a week, when we will switch to them. The website will then change somewhat, but not radically. At that time, comments will hopefully return to what they were before. There will be one change which also should not hinder commenters significantly, and will likely improve things greatly. I will no longer have to approve each comment, but before a comment is accepted the commenter will have to fill out a Captcha box. This is not very hard, and will prevent spam from reaching the site.
Thanks for explaining. You must have had quite a time investment clearing all the comments in the last four months, a hat tip to you, you seem to be a busy man besides the web site.