by Frank James
We've gotten a few comments in by e-mail to theswamp@tribune.com, which I'm posting. (As I reported earlier, we have a technical glitch which has knocked out our comments boards. The people responsible for fixing it haven't been able to do so.) When you send in comments, please let me know which posting I should attach it to. Otherwise, I'll just throw them into a catch-call posting like this.
-----------------------------------------------------
David L: What were you thinking, disabling comments at the height of the comment season??????
Then being so inept as to not know how to undo the damage?
Huffington Post, you're not.
Sun 8/31/2008 12:28 PM
(Frank James: Let me answer you, David. We had huge traffic on Wednesday-Thursday because a posting on the Obama campaign's spat with with WGN radio was linked to the Drudge Report. Our site was so overloaded, it actually became inaccessible to many, including us. Our technical people took down the comment boards to ease the strain. Then when they went to restart the comment boards, nothing happened. They have been working the problem the whole weekend but nothing has worked. Believe me, Mark Silva, I and the rest of The Swamp's team are very upset. But we're not going to let that stop us. So if you work with us, we'll make the best of a bad situation. You're right, we aren't Huff Po. They've had a lot more money invested in them than we have. But we a scrappy bunch and we're not going to let this get us down. And our tech people tell me that we're going to be adding some server capacity that will prevent this from happening in the future. Can't happen soon enough.)
-----------------------------------------------------
Remember the evangelical preacher who was going to pray for rain for last Thursday in Denver so it would literally rain on Obama parade? Well, it didn't, but it does look like Hurricane Gustave may wash out a large part of the Republican convention even though it is a thousand miles away. Hmm? Is God sending a message? Julie M
Sun 8/31/2008 12:17 PM
-------------------------------------------------
ITS BAD ENOUGH YOU BACKED OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT, PLEASE DON'T LET HIS CAMPAIGN LOW LIFE STOP OUR FREE SPEECH ON "THE SWAMP'.
BECAUSE IT WILL BE BAD ENOUGH IF HE IS ELECTED PRESIDENT-
REMEMBER "CHANGE" MEANS THE END OF FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA
THANKS
A FORMER READER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE-
Sun 8/31/2008 12:09 PM
• 
• 
• 
Post a comment
(Anonymous comments will not be posted. Comments aren't posted immediately. They're screened for relevance to the topic, obscenity, spam and over-the-top personal attacks. We can't always get them up as soon as we'd like so please be patient. Thanks for visiting The Swamp.)