All of a sudden we’re getting a lot of comment spam, and so we’ve changed the settings so that it immediately approves comments only from “any authenticated commenters.” Until we can figure out how to solve the spam problem, I guess we’ll go back to approving comments a couple times a day.
I encourage youall to “authenticate” your comments (whatever that means) so they will appear immediately and people can respond right away, rather than having to wait to see your comment until it has been approved.
Andrew, since none of us knows what we have to do to become "authenticated," could you please look into this and let us know?
-Bill
I assume this means signing in. I've tried to sign in without success several times over the past few weeks. Neither the Moveable Type option to create an account, nor using a WordPress.com account works.
Testing signing in…
So, I signed in and my message (above) appeared immediately.