1. I maintain an ad-free blog.
2. I will allow no free ads on my blog disguised as comments. (Has anyone else noticed the sudden spike in spam-type green company comments?)
3. I don't do unsolicited product reviews, so don't bother asking. Established bloggers are welcome to leave positive comments about something they love, but comments left by company reps will be deleted mercilessly.
4. I'm currently memed out and won't participate for a while...unless it's a really good one that is totally voluntary and doesn't require spreading it to other bloggers like chain mail.
5. Be nice in the comments and I'll be nice back.
6. Comments on old posts are welcome.
That is all. Have a nice day!
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Hmm. I did get something green-producty as a comment the other day. I left it there, with sort of a benefit-of-the-doubt mentality, but I did feel kind of ambivalent about it. I should go and check out how to delete such things, just in case.
ReplyDeleteI noticed it, Theresa. I got it too and checked it out. It's not the first I've gotten and deleted, which made me decide to publicly post my policies. :)
ReplyDeleteSee Blogger Help for how to delete any unwanted comment. It's pretty easy.
I checked it out and it is pretty easy to delete. I'm going to delete it - I don't want any advertising on my blog either.
ReplyDeleteY-E-S!!! I've noticed and it's driving me crazy! I hear you on the memes, too. I go back and forth about it, but I think I'll be more selective in the future.
ReplyDeleteI get those add comments for house building stuff all the time.... DELETED without following the links.
ReplyDeleteRude of them, if you ask me!
Additional note to advertisers: I don't care if your product is super-green. This is not an advertising venue so your comment will be deleted whether I think your product is good or not.
ReplyDeleteHey Chile, what do you do about people who leave a nice, relevant comment, but then sign their name and leave a website address for some product. I've had two of these recently on my book review thread. I wish there was a way to leave the comment, but delete the website reference. I will sometimes leave my website address when I sign a comment, but the difference is I'm not selling anything.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it's a case by case call, Theresa. Generally, I'll go look at their website and see what I think. If it's obviously a website just to sell something and the comment is not relevent to the discussion, I delete it. You can tell if a comment was left strictly to direct traffic to their site. For instance, if they have a blog, does it actually provide information or does it only direct you to purchasing their products? (I glanced at the comments in question for you and the first seemed fine. The second, I'd waffle on for a while.)
ReplyDeleteI have had a couple of occasions where I deleted a comment for personal reasons but didn't want the person to be left out. In those cases, I quoted the pertinent parts of what they said and left a new comment, under my name, saying "so and so left this comment: (quote)"
Oops, I forgot to mention that I also posted my policies so that people know what I expect. I think I originally saw this at Greenpa's and then again at GardenPunks. I liked it, so I did something similar. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, I had the same feelings about those two comments, respectively. I like the reposting idea. And I'll post a blog policies link too - mind if I shamelessly plagiarize yours?
ReplyDeleteYes, you may plagarize my policies as posted but I think you should feel shameful about it. haha
ReplyDeleteOk, shamefully it is! I'm not very good at shameless anyway ;)
ReplyDeleteChile, now I have a commenter who made a nice comment but their name/handle links to a commercial website. I can delete the comment but not the link embedded in their name. Do you know how to remove that link?
ReplyDeleteDid you delete the comment completely and check the "delete forever" box? I saw that you had deleted one on the most recent post but no link showed up. You can go back and remove the comment entirely so it doesn't even show up as one you deleted.
ReplyDeleteNo, I didn't do the 'delete forever' this time - aha! I'll go fix that. Thanks Chile.
ReplyDeleteChile, I'm wondering if you have some advice about how to de-clutter my blog tags. I was a bit over-enthusiatic with tags early in my blog, and now I have too many categories. Is there an easier way in blogger to re-tag my posts other than going in a editing the tags on each and every previous post? I thought I would ask you first before wading in to blogger help, which is an ordeal in itself....
ReplyDeleteTheresa - I've done a little bit of that on mine, and a lot over on the Blogging Bookworm. The most efficient way to do it is to go to the "Edit Posts" section. You'll see that all your labels are visible on a list on the left.
ReplyDeleteAbove your post titles, there's a drop-down box that says "Label Actions". Click on the drop-down arrow and you'll see "Apply Label" followed by a list of all your currently used labels. Keep scrolling down and you'll see "Remove Label" with nothing showing.
You can select any post you want by clicking the box by the title. Then use the Apply or Remove label function. Sounds tedious? Speed it up by clicking on one of your labels on the left to bring up the posts using that particular label.
Here's an example with mine. If I wanted to eliminate "coffee" and "food from scratch" as labels, and just have "food" as a label, I would first click on "coffee" on the left. I would "select all" and use the drop-down menu to apply a new label (option at the end). It will bring up a box for me to type it in. Once that is applied, I would use the "remove label" to remove "coffee". Then I'd do the same thing with "food from scratch".
If this doesn't make sense, email me. (See business card.)
Ah, I think I can do this, Chile - thanks a bundle!
ReplyDeleteDear Chile:
ReplyDeleteI am currently trying to make homemade masa for tortillas. I went to the latin grocery store and bought dry white hominy. I soaked the hominy overnight and then cooked it the next day for about an hour. I proceeded to blend this in a food processor, but ended up with something that looked like mashed potatoes! No making a tortilla from mush! I'm wondering if you have ever made masa for tortillas out of hominy? Or if I need to use another kind of dried corn? I can't seem to find dried white field corn in any store around here. OK, really appreciate your insight! Thanks!
-Rachel
Rachel - masa harina, the corn flour used to make corn tortillas, is technically dried masa dough that is re-ground after drying so it is even finer. The problem with making tortillas directly from nixtamal - the field corn that has been cooked and soaked in water with slaked lime - is that it is hard to get the grind fine enough.
ReplyDeleteThe recipes I looked at briefly online indicate three ways to grind the nixtamal after it has been drained, rinsed, and patted dry: with a traditional metate & mano; with a plate-style hand-crank grinder; or by pulsing in a food processor although they warn the last option isn't likely to end up with a fine enough grind.
If you ended up with "mashed potaotes" then you may have had dough that actually would have made tortillas. Did you grind with water? From what I read, and you should do some searches online for more detail, it should be pulsed without water. You can add water by hand to get the right consistency for making tortillas.
Many stores in the US, and I would think central and south America, carry masa harina or the flour for making tortillas. If not, it can be ordered online. Get some of this and follow the directions on the package for making the tortillas. This will get you familiar with the consistency that the dough should be so you can go back and experiment with making your own masa.
Another idea is to find a Mexican restaurant in your area, or a tortilleria, that makes their corn tortillas from scratch and see if you can observe the process.