Comments policy

Apologies to anyone who has posted a comment which has never appeared. Comments are normally published immediately, but the software settings allow moderation to be applied to posts over a certain age. This allows the blog author to keep an eye on older posts, because it would obviously not be possible to manually check two-year-old posts (say) to see if anyone had added a belated comment. However, although the software alerts the blogger to any comments that require moderation, for reasons unknown some such posts have been categorised as spam, which means that no alert is issued. And when I've tried to authorise such comments they have disappeared to who-knows-where. This has affected only a very small number of comments, but to mitigate the problem moderation is now required only on comments added to posts more than ten days old rather than the previous five. (Another recent problem is disappearing paragraphs!!)