Hi folks,
Please expect some weirdisms over the next hour or so as I am playing with the Reader Comment backend a little. There won’t be any noticeable changes to what you can do with it when I am finished, but since there are appearing more and more trouble makers, I am setting up some extra checks and putting the beginnings of our new a-hole detector scheme for the next release.
So for those that think differently, we do know our arses from our elbows 😉
Steve.
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