Clarity: Comments Are Always Open To All Subscribers--Here Is The Screenshot Of The Settings
ATTENTION WOLF-STEPPEN
Screenshot:
Wolf-Steppen:
You have falsely accused me, of switching out comments between paid and unpaid, to “…try to get more money out of people.”
WHAT?
I virtually NEVER put comments on “paid only.” IF I have, it has been vanishingly rare these past 5 years, and it has never switched mid-stream.
So Wolf, I looked you up.
Free subscriber since Oct 4, 2023. Two Hundred and forty nine comments.
I believe you owe me an apology.
Everybody, please hear me: I always place all comments open to ALL. I always tell Tom, when we have the same old argument about this, that I feel the comments are the lifeblood of The Truth Barrier and I don’t want them to only be open to paid subscribers. If anybody should get peeved it should be the paid subscribers, who get no benefits for their paid subscriptions.
But they never complain. If anybody complains it’s free subscribers. And this begs more questions.
Why are you falsely accusing me?
SUBSTACK may be messing with some code— I don’t know.
My dear friend Joan Shenton said she was unable to comment the other day, so I cut and pasted her comment in the thread.
To be clear: I set all comments open to all subscribers. Except on very rare occasions.
Tom and I have been arguing about it for years. ASK HIM. He wants me to pay-wall comments, I refuse, he says commenting is a privilege, I say no it’s not, and it goes round and round like that.
I am sorry to dys-regulate but I am unable to remain serene in the face of false accusations. Wolf-Steppen, I am talking to you.
Can you see the screen shot with the setting at the top?
Do I need to publish analytics of how many times—since 2021— I have ever placed comments behind a paywall?
The readers here who have decided to become paid subscribers (about 3%) are the ones you should address. THEY are not complaining about YOU, but you are complaining about me. I have done nothing except provide you with free Substack content and comment access since Oct 4 2023.
And still, you accuse me of trying to make money off of people?
What people?
Have I ever “tried to get more money” out of you?
Right now I’m trying to get a lick of fairness and decency out of you.
As a paying reader, and serial commenter, I would strongly encourage non-paying commenters to support this worthy cause, The Truth Barrier, the best substack publication ever, that throws shade on everyone else's publication, specially the ones with a purple badge that no one ever heard about.
Even if it's only one monthly sub of 5 dollars or whatever, that they cancel next month. It's a work of love. Please, budget for it!
There are other ways to donate for The Cause, like Paypal. And the Store where you can get merch, which is unrelated to the Cotton bonds of the CSA for another Cause.
Also, remember computers do weird things. If there are problems to comment, try erasing cookies, closing the navigator, turn off the phone and turn on again.
And substack software is buggy, a well known fact. In the last comment I made in another post, the commenting system stopped the publication saying this message: "No attachments are allowed in this response". I realized that I had pasted a link to some website, and the system created a snippet of the site, which the system misunderstood as an attachment file I was trying to send. Not my fault, but a software error. I solved the problem by removing the snippet, clicking the "X" that appeared on it. Then the comment was published.
Dear friends, when in shock, always think bad of software first, not of people.
Mystery solved:
Thu, May 7: From Tom Kudla
9:30pm: It was my actions that created this fiasco. Also, I forgot to say... it was at 7:15pm this evening (May 6th) -- which was 30-min after you posted "Clarity", that I -- for yesterday's posts and for the posts going back to the April 29th post, undid the pay-to-comment, putting them back to free-to-comment. I saw the "Clarity" post at 7pm.
So, I caused Wolf-Steppen to encounter this: It was one of those posts -- I believe specifically the "Day 2: No Scrolling" post where Wolf-Steppen was going back in and got then blocked -- due to me having changed the setting. /// Then, sometime after 7:15pm, Wolf-Steppen saw your "Clarity" post this evening, and he then "retested commenting" -- and it worked from him -- because I set it back to free-to-comment at 7:15pm. Wolf-Steppen's comment, here:
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/clarity-comments-are-always-open/comment/254927922
For the posts made today -- May 6th -- I did not touch the comments setting. I have only been changing the comment settings after a post was 24 to 48 old and then, only after there was also a new post present. This is NOT to imply that what I did was ok! Again, I apologize.
Whatever you need me to do. If you would like me to issue a public statement, I will.