As anyone who left a comment today will have noticed, it took me a long time to clear all comments. Please accept my apologies. Clearing the projects I have to complete before retiring from employment at the end of February is proving to be pretty demanding in terms of time.
I admit that I am looking forward to March, when I will have more time to concentrate on blogs and videos and the research required to support their expansion, which I would like to undertake.
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More self indulgent nonsense
No one asked you to indulge yourself by reading this blog.
Doing so would, in fact, appear to be a self indulgence on your part.
No apology required…..
or, indeed, response to the previous comment
What @Clive Parry said
@chris
If this is what you think, why bother coming to this site in the first place.
Your are like the people who go to Disneyworld then bitch & complain about standing in the long lines and the high cost of a soda or a bottle of water.
It’s good to use the word ‘retiring from employment’, so much easier than ‘no-one wants to employ me anymore, given my lack of useful knowledge and ability to cause a fight in an empty phone box’.
Must be much easier to accept the truth this way?
Tied, and I will, use that.
After 45 years I think I have had my fair go at trying to meet other’s needs for a lot of hours a day. It’s been fun, but not what I wish for anymore.
Noted Richard.
Hang in there as they say……………………..
So, not really retiring then; more like changing jobs!
Yes
Wow, you vet all the comments manually? That must be a huge drain on your time. I would have expected a vetting system to be automated to release those precious human resources to dedicate to creating content.
Do you need some help? Farm out the vetting to some supporters.
I have approved more than 300,000. Thanks, but I will keep going.
Your comment that you have approved more than 300,000 comments was comment 1004263, which presumably means you got your millionth comment a few weeks ago. Is this accurate, that 70% of comments do not meet the standards for posting?
I went back and looked up your millionth comment, which arrived just before the end of the year. Do they win a prize?
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12/31/why-has-obesity-increased/#comment-1000000
Well done and thanks for moderating over a million comments.
I have no idea where you got your figure from, but there have been a few thousand comments since then. Your assumptions is very wide of the mark.
Each comment posted on your site has its own URL ending in a number. This number increases by one for each new comment, regardless of which blog post it is on. For example, the URL for your first comment that I replied to was:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/28/apologies-9/#comment-1004263
The URL for the second comment that I am now replying to is:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/28/apologies-9/#comment-1004305
I checked the comments on your first few blogs and I couldn’t see a comment-1 but there was a comment-2. As far as I am aware, each comment gets assigned a number as it is submitted, and so even if you choose not to post it, that number stays with the blocked comment and does not get reassigned.
I was guessing that this means that each new comment from comment-1 to comment-1000000 was used, meaning there had been over a million comments, but there might be a reason why this is not the case, which was why I was asking the question.
Is there a reason why the URL ending in comment-1000000 is not the millionth comment that was submitted?
If more than a million comments have been submitted, and as you say that you have approved over 300,000 of these, then this would mean you have not approved close to 700,000, which is where I got the 70% figure from.
There may have been 1 million comments – but there are vast numbers of spam ones a day from casinos, hawkers of viagra and much more and they are all deleted without me having to see them using spam software.