BBC Learning English
Hello everyone
I thought I should make an appearance, answer some of the questions appearing here, give some advice and to say how much I'm enjoying this. So, let me start:
1) Comments
It appears that some of you feel your comments aren't appearing. We're publishing as many as we see each day (except Saturdays and Sundays). A new spam manager has been installed and I'm a bit worried that this manager may be eating people's comments. If you post a comment and it doesn't appear after a couple of days then something has gone wrong. Could you please email learning.english@bbc.co.uk to let us know so we can try and track this and then get it fixed.
2) Life after 31st January
Some of you have asked if this can be extended past 31st January. We won't be doing this because we want the blogs to focus on the teaching environment provided by the single student and single teacher. However, we do have message boards where you can have conversations like this everyday. You can find our message boards here:
Message Boards
We will run these group events from time to time so you will be able to find out how everyone is getting on.
3) Small text in the blogs
I have worked out (I hope) why the text appears small in the blogs on occasion. It happens when someone uploads a picture and chooses to put it in the centre of the page. The blog system puts this text around the picture:
div align="center" IMAGE /div
The text div align="center" appears to be causing the problem. If you leave the image so that it appears on the left hand side of the page then the text does not change size. I am looking to see if there is a fix for this issue because I know many of you like to have the picture in the middle of the text.
Well, I think that's more than enough from me, this time is for all of you, so I shall beat a hasty retreat and let you get on with the job of blogging and commenting.
Best wishes
Paul
Comments
Hi pual nice to see you , thanks for your all efforts . send my hello to all BBC English learning staff . i hope that your spam machine won;t eat my comments . again thanks and byeeee
Hello, Paul! I just wanted to say thank you for keepng us posted about the ways this site works.
Paul I am pleased to hear that it is your new Spam Manager, who is editing the comments. Hopefully I can convey my thanks via you to all our tutors for the fantastic work they are doing trying to make us more fluent in English. I noticed that some of my commentary had gone through the watchful Spam Manager. About half of them the new Manager obviously thought were not fit to print! A very stern guy this new Manager, maybe he will loosen a little and stop being so merciless. As he is so new at the job, we will let him feel as a total ponce for a while. Right?
Hello,Paul,thank you and the rest of the BBC LE team for the openess to different opinions and ideas,creativity and immediate feedback! When I suggested having 'bloggers' family' reunion /it was so sad to say good bye to Amy/,I only meant teacher bloggers and didn't know how enthusiastic student bloggers would be.And now I can see this project developing, enjoying its very special atmospere of frendly and very emotional intercommunication and co-operation.Just keep up your good job !
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