Last week I accidentally deleted some already-published comments in Moveable Type  (the publishing platform on which the Student LoanDown blog is built).

Obviously, I didn't mean to do this. In fact, it's surprising that I made this error because I am extra careful when working in Moveable Type. I'm new to the program, and frankly, it makes me a little nervous.

Here's what happened: I was moving spam comments into a Junk folder. But instead of clicking the "Junk" button, I clicked "Delete." That would've been fine if all I moved was spam. But I had mistakenly selected all of the comments on that page, including some really great ones that already had been published. Two errors that, when combined, resulted in permanent deletion. We've tried, and we can't get them back. :-(

So if your comments were among the ones I deleted, I'm sorry. I hope you'll come back and comment again.

In the meantime, I think I'm going to leave Moveable Type to the technical professionals. I'm pretty sure it senses my fear—you know, the way dogs do .