Woe is the Blog Moderator

Folks, I hate to ever write any manner of a downer post, but this one I just have to tell you guys.

First I suggest you read this from the Blogger Help forum.

Which answers our question of "What happened to the Poll gadget, and why it got zapped?"

But that is not the only problem to occur after these changes -
Second issue; I am not receiving ANY email notices when any of you leave a comment on a story. As you know the comment option serves as a means for people to submit their stories in an anonymous fashion. I still get them, but at the present time (in this broken status), I can only preview a snippet of your comment which only appears on my Blog administrators panel. I cannot use COPY/PASTE and then create a Blog Post. My only options are to post it as-is in a comment, or deny it and nobody besides me will ever read it

This email notification problem has  been noted by other bloggers on the Help Forum, you may read about it here.

 Many of you are asking, "So what does this mean to me as a reader?" Can't you just tell people to email their stories in, and we can still have our luxurious time reading the blog posts. That would be my preference of operation. However due to the sensitive nature of our stories content, the bulk of our writers prefer to submit "Anonymous", and honestly I can easily understand why. How many of you would submit your email address to an adult themed site, that might touch on some pretty personal aspects of life from long ago?

 I feel it would feel very clunky if people's stories got shuffled under the comment section on a story. I think this presents a risk that almost nobody would have the opportunity to read it. Our visitors who randomly drop-in every few days or even just weekly, might miss the most recent comments. Any sharing of recent stories would be too difficult to appreciate for anyone if they only appeared as comments.  

 I do not have any firm plan on how to proceed at this point. It is not a show-stopper and we are not going anywhere, nor even thinking the end is near. I just hope for a means to keep our stories coming in, an published suitable to our long-running format.

An immediate change, I have opened-up all comments for now, so that you may have the freedom to share your thoughts.

 As for the forums -
Some of you know when reading comments on a forum, the only information you can regard as pertinent and reliable is the information posted by the Managing Host. In this case it would be Blogger. I have no reason to expect the recent changes by the EU carry responsibility for Google Blogger's recent changes.However we are hamstrung by their "improvements".

Sincerely Your Blog Host,
Eric