Tunnels of Doom

Apologies for the meta post but I thought I should outline a few relatively minor changes to Tunnels of Doom. Obviously since a hiatus a few months ago I’ve gotten back into the swing of updating at least the Gaming Weekend column. It is seeming though that Gaming Weekend has become and indeed has been for some time the core feature of the site. It’s also increasingly misnamed so going forward Gaming Weekend will no longer be an active category nor will it be labeled as a specific named column. Instead Tunnels of Doom itself will be updated roughly weekly (my aim to to have them posted by Tuesday each week) with the gaming report that has been known to this point as Gaming Weekend.

I will maintain the post title “… Edition” convention and in fact the posts will be under the Edition category going forward. The rationale for this is simply to avoid the artificial column construct when the blog itself has become that column. ToD has always been a bit of an experiment to me, coming from my desire to write about games but no longer wishing to clog my personal site with the topic. My initial concept for the site was different from what it has become, and it’s fair to say that I’ll make further changes if they become warranted.

The one other small format adjustment is that I intend to try to improve the visual appeal of the site by including post images (like the one for this post). It’s probably not a huge change but ideally it will make the site look a little more interesting. And finally, the last change for now is that it will no longer be required to be a reigstered user to post a comment however, all comments will need to pass an approval step before being published. I get a lot of spam comments on ToD already and while I want to foster more conversation (and hopefully open commenting will allow that) I don’t have any desire to have to hand-prune spam comments that clutter the pages, I’d rather stop them before they become visible. This is actually the same as it has always been, but the lifted barrier to posting will hopefully mean once in a while I’ll actually approve a comment rather than just spam-mark an endless stream of bot account posted garbage.

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