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Discovering Comments On Old Posts

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I’ve known from occasionally looking at my web logs that one particular post of mine is the most frequently visited place on my site: How to Rename a Windows Service. I suspect it’s popular because at the time I wrote it, there was no Google answer for it. I recall thinking myself an incredibly shrewd SEO genius to name my article the exact same as what you would type into a Google search. (Even though that’s actually the most basic of SEO tips and does not require any genius at all.)

Well I happened to look at that page recently and discovered there’s a boatload of comments on it! I had no idea. No idea that my old blog platform still accepted comments, no idea that anyone had commented on it, and no idea that people were still commenting on it, four years later. (Ugh, it’s been that long?)

P.S. Man, people can be hateful sometimes. It’s just a frickin’ Windows Service, for god’s sake.

P.P.S. Clearly there’s no moderation on those old comments. I bet there’s probably a slew of weird remarks all through my old posts. I should check that out sometime.

P.P.P.S. What happened to the emails I was supposed to get when people made comments??

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This page is a static archival copy of what was originally a WordPress post. It was converted from HTML to Markdown format before being built by Hugo. There may be formatting problems that I haven't addressed yet. There may be problems with missing or mangled images that I haven't fixed yet. There may have been comments on the original post, which I have archived, but I haven't quite worked out how to show them on the new site.

Sorry, new comments are disabled on older posts. This helps reduce spam. Active commenting almost always occurs within a day or two of new posts.