Sorry to rattle on and on about this, but ExpressionEngine is blowing my MIND, maaaan!!!  I finally happened across the Member Groups options page, and found exactly the option that I wanted in regards to comments moderation.  NOW, if you’re a member you can post comments UNmoderated.  There was also an option to disallow non-members from viewing member profiles, I turned that on too.  That makes sense, right?

At the moment I have it so’s you can join as a member (self-activated via e-mail) and start to post comments unmoderated… that is going to be abused, I just know it, so I think I’m going to start moderating MEMBERship instead.  This will at least thwart the spammers & haters who crave instant gratification.

I am so impressed with this one tag I found in EE, regarding pagination… go look at the bottom of the page, on the front index page.  "Page 1 of 111 pages 1 2 3 > Last" You see that?  That is a beautiful thing, I am sorry but that is just… so sweet.  Total accessibility right there, man.  I know I theoretically could’ve done that using Movable Type and some plugin or another, but in EE it’s right there in a cinchy "paginate" tag. You just pop it in wherever you want it to appear in the template, and BAM! you’re done. Doing something like that on an index page would be utterly impractical using MT, because you’d have to rebuild the whole damn site, EVERY TIME you added enough entries to change that one little tiny number… 111 would need to change to 112 on every fucking page, it would be a nightmare of constant rebuilding.  Whereas EE spits out the pages only when they’re requested, so it takes a change like that and just says, "okay, will do!"

Still trying to wrap my brain around all these tags, and how the templating concept is so different from the way it’s done in MT.  Maybe I would understand it quicker if I tried standing on my head?  It’s just bass-ackwards because in MT, one template represents one page as seen by the viewer.  Whereas in EE, the index-page template can represent ALL these different renderings of that same info, i.e. it might show a straight-up front-page type index, or a category page, or an individual page.  But how does it KNOW?  It is serious voodoo.