A quick apology from the management to the relatively small but nice group of people who leave comments and have noticed delays. As several have guessed, the reason is a special space-age, high-tech, whizz-bang system to weed out the malevolent and tragic ramblings of a troll/stalker going by various names, notably ‘Lady Marmalade’. LM’s life was apparently being consumed by attempts to overcome the previous, lower-level, medium-tech, 50s-era, analog filtering system – submitting much the same comment, with tiny variations in spelling/email name/IP address etc, every few minutes. This is from a few months back…
The more recent barrages were so intensive and unhinged that he must have been in danger of depriving himself of food and sleep. It’s an act of mercy.