I've been an infrequent visitor to TPM Cafe over the last several months. First: I'm impressed at the changes. The site is very usable, and has great potential for cooperative creativity. My main complaint would be that there is still far to much Web2.0 styled constant datastreaming; a continuous flog-and-roll current. There is no easy way to bear down upon one concept, and flesh it out. This is understandble, as fresh data means more page-views, which leads to revenue, and TPM is not a cheap venture, nor should anyone expect it to be a non-profitable business model. That would lead to a massive fail, and few, if any regular visitors would be happy with that outcome.

I have a few other lesser complaints. Poking around the MyTPM back-end has caused me to believe there might be inherent work-arounds to some of my misgivings about this site, available for use, but that these methods have not been exploited. This post addresses the two link maximum per comment limitation.

The two link maximum per comment may not be an absolute. Assistance is needed to find out if this hunch is correct though. Would anyone please comment on this thread, first without any links inserted into it, letting me know there will be a follow-up, and then follow-up with a comment that has more than two links within it. There may be a way to "de-spam" the comment through the "Manage" tab in MyTPM.

The "Quick Filters" module's defaults are:

• Non-spam Comments
• Comments on my entries
• Pending comments
• Spam Comments
• Published comments
• Comments in the last 7 days

I commented on a blog post yeterday with linked references to a Congressional Daily Record transcript of an Obama speech, and three Senate Roll Call votes, and at the time was unaware of the two-link maximum per post. When I attempted to publish the post, there was a notice that it was awaiting approval. This is why I believe that comments with many links can be de-spammed, probably through the "pending comments" function.

Would someone please help me out here?