Spam Issues: We're Working On It
You all have been immensely patient about the number of righteous comments that have been going to spam, and pretty cheerful about emailing me to let me know when I have to rescue one (or 10), and I really appreciate that.
Today and yesterday, we have been working on new software ("we," as in, "my wonderful boyfriend, Gregg") to combat the spam problem, and hope to have this corrected soon.
FYI, for anyone who thinks it's personal, or about the contents of your comment, this is a free speech/asshole-friendly site. Assholes' comments give the rest of us something more to talk about, so unless you turn every comment into a referendum on your rectum as one guy did, it's really hard to get banned here.
If your comment gets eaten, it's because some clicking chunk of numbers thought "Ron Paul" was another way to say "Viagra," or something like that. Please just write me, put "spam comment" or something like that in your email header, and tell me the name you comment in so I can find it without raking through 16K spam comments.
a referendum on your rectum
I just have to work that into a country song.
Steve Daniels at January 1, 2012 9:49 AM
Fwiw, I don't know what limitations you have on your blog software, but I strongly prefer the community moderated blogs, especially those of the "comment hidden by community, but you can still open it and read it if you want to" variety.
Those take the job of spam detection out of some pretty stupid pieces of software and let the community crowd source it, killing off the spam, and letting the merely virulent through.
jerry at January 1, 2012 11:26 AM
As I've emailed already - I have two computers behind the same router. The one using FF 9.0.1 gets a comment booted to SPAM. The one using FF 3.6.25 does not.
I sure am happy to support all these programmers, as they are apparently generating work for themselves.
Radwaste at January 1, 2012 1:12 PM
Does the same puter using FF get through using Safari?
If you see this at 13:18 PST, yes!
NOTE: This was reported as spam. Just rescued. -Amy
Radwaste at January 1, 2012 1:17 PM
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