Members and community

Your posts.
Your conversation.

Members comment under your posts, reply and vote. Every comment is on one screen, newest first, where an editor hides it, shows it again or deletes it with its replies.

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Close comments on every post older than a year.

  • list_posts
  • update_post_settings

Two ways to do it.

By hand

In the admin

  1. Open Comments in the admin. Every comment on your posts and pages is there, newest first.
  2. Use Status to see only the comments that are Shown, or only the Hidden ones.
  3. Press Hide to take a comment off the site, and Show again to bring it back. Delete removes it with its replies.
  4. To stop one reader, open their page in Audience and press Ban from commenting. Lift the ban undoes it.
  5. To close a conversation, open the post's settings drawer and turn off Comments.

With your agent

In Claude, ChatGPT or your editor

Close comments on every post older than a year.

Open comments on the About page.

Turn comments off on “Our statement on the strike” before I publish it.

The tools it calls

  • list_posts
  • update_post_settings

No tool reads, hides or deletes a reader's comment, so moderation stays on the Comments screen. Your agent opens and closes the conversation on any post or page it may edit.

For example

  • A heated thread, cooled

    A politics newsletter hides two comments that cross the line and bans one reader from commenting. The reader still reads every post.

  • Quiet on the announcements

    A software studio asks its agent to turn comments off on every release note, and keeps them open on the essays.

  • A conversation on the about page

    A podcast opens comments on its About page, so listeners can say hello where the hosts introduce themselves.

Questions, answered

How do I moderate comments on PixelGlass?
Open Comments in the admin. Hide a comment, show it again, or delete it with its replies. On a member's page you can ban them from commenting.
Who can moderate comments?
Editors, admins and the owner. Authors write, and do not moderate.
What can a banned member still do?
A banned member still reads every post they may read, and still votes. Where the comment form was, the site says that they cannot comment.
Are PixelGlass comments plain text?
Yes. A comment is plain text up to 5,000 characters, so no reader can put markup or a script on your page.
Who can comment on a paid post?
Only the readers the post is for. A reader outside sees the paywall in place of the post and its conversation.
How do I hear about new comments?
Every new comment is a notification for the editors, admins and the owner, in Notifications in the admin.

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