http://midasoracle.wordpress.com/ —- powered by P2.
If some of you wanna be registered there, so as to have a commenting playground with no limits, let me know.
For this website (Midas Oracle .ORG), I came back to WP FrameWork. I still have to work out the sidebar.
UPDATE: Jason tells me it’-s a mistake to dilute the comments. They should stay on this site, MO.org.
– On the frontpage and on the tag/category pages, the comments will appear listed below the post. No need to download the post to read the (favorable or unfavorable) comments.
– If you are a registered user and have just logged in, you can comment directly on the frontpage or on the tag/category pages. No need to open the post to publish your own comment.
– I will be finessing the sidebar and the pages in the coming days. Patience, please. Contact me if you spot an horrific bug that prevents you from digesting your Thanksgiving turkey.
Addendum: WordPress’-s P2
UPDATE: P2 is out. It sucked too much of the server resources.
I am one of those “-honorable people”- who get caught in Askimet’-s net. Any blog running Askimet will refuse any of my comments. I have never submitted any illegitimate comment, though.
It’-s a big scandal.
Askimet = Shit.
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I have tested the comment system, and successfully embedded 3 chart widgets (InTrade, NewsFutures, and HubDub) in the comment area of my last post. Additionally, I embedded a YouTube video of a good piece of Jazz (WaterMelon Man by Herbie Hancock).
To do so, when you type your comment, you need to click on the “-HTML”- button, and insert the code here.
It’-s yet another functionality (in a long list) that Midas Oracle offers to the members of the field of prediction markets.
Overcoming Whatever, Freakonomics, and the InTrade e-mailing list, look so pale, now. 
As you know, some people commenting here told me they went into trouble, even when they were logged in. I found out why. The anti-spam plugin “-WP Spam Free”- does not exempt registered blog users from its anti-spam checking. It only exempts the administrator (me). That’-s absurd. (See the WP forum.) The registered users of Midas Oracle should be trusted a priori.
I didn’-t know that. When some commenters complained to me, I thought they were completely drunk. Sorry for that, folks.
Which is why the plugin “-WP Spam Free”- is out (until its author comes back to his sense), and “-Bad Behavior”- is in.
Commenters, let me know whether the problems you got while trying to comment on Midas Oracle have disappeared. Thanks. I promise I’-ll trust you, this time.
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Our previous post on the topic of registration (which is recommended).
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UPDATE: Bad Behavior proved to be good for my blog users, but lately, I endured an attack of spam comments (60 last night). So, I did disable Bad Behavior and re-enable WP Spam Free for a while…- I’-ll see what to do next…- If you encounter problems, e-mail me. I think you should accept cookies and have JavaScript enabled in your browser…-
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I deactivated the WP-OpenID plugin because WP Spam Free says it is the source of incompatibilities. I notified the WP forum.
Commenters, let me know whether the problems you got while trying to comment on Midas Oracle have disappeared. Thanks.
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Our previous post on the same topic.
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UPDATE: I deactivated WP Spam Free and installed Bad Behavior.
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Sorry for that, Nigel.
Register yourself on Midas Oracle + Log in when you want to make a comment.
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That way, the anti-spam mechanism won’-t apply to you. (I suppose that it prohibits the publishing of many external links in comments, because that’-s the marking of spammers.)
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TECHNICAL TIP: Ask your browser to remember your login and password.
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The WordPress registered subscribers should have access, internally, to the “-comments”- page —-so that they could read comments, and reply to comments from there. (With a little help from the “-Absolute Comments”- plugin.) That would be useful to the heavy commenters. Indeed, that “-comments”- page loads quicker than anything else.
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I have been fighting comment spammers for weeks, and I think I’-ve finally found the right combo:
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TWO CASES:
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CASE #1: You are logged in.
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CASE #2: You are not logged in. —- a) You are not a registered user. b) You’-re a registered user but haven’-t logged in.
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The comment will appear immediately if the commenter has one previously approved comment.
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