Swamp note: Comments snafu, day 3: The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune
Posted August 30, 2008 8:00 AM
The Swamp

by Frank James

Day three of the Great Comments Crisis on The Swamp. On Thursday, we were forced to disable our comments board after the incredible volume of comments traffic we received on an Obama-WGN posting which Drudge linked to wound up swamping our site. (pun intended.)

Unfortunately, we've gotten caught up in a web of unintentional consequences. After turning off the comments, we now can't turn them back on for some reason our technical people can't figure out.

It there's a Movable Type expert out the there who experienced a similar problem and solved it, I have a simple request. HELP US, PLEASE HELP US!!!!

While our technology team tries to solve this problem, we ask for your continued patience. We realize it's hard to keep a blog community together when the interaction that is the very definition of community is missing.

But if you have to have a technological mishap, better that it happen under these circumstances instead of, say, when you're having open-heart surgery or hurtling five miles above the earth in a jet aircraft. We will, all of us, I hope, try to keep this in perspective. Let's call this a blogcation.

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