A tip for posting comments
We have installed a spam filter that does an excellent job of catching “real” spam, and occasionally perfectly acceptable comments also get caught in it. If you try to post a comment and it triggers the spam filter, please do not try to repost it. One of the behaviors of comment spammers is to post many comments in a short time period (using a computer program that makes the posts–there isn’t an actual human sitting there hitting the button), and repeated attempts to post will only make the filter even more convinced that you are a spammer. In some cases, it has resulted in ALL of a particular person’s posts being shifted from the blog to the spam filter. We check the spam filter once or twice a day and “rescue” the non-spam comments, so please be patient; your comment will show up eventually, even if you disagree with us–as long as you don’t engage in sockpuppet behavior and other immaturity. And we will delete duplicate comments.
If you guys could see the totally disgusting spam that the filter catches (the Editrix is no wilting flower but even she is skeeved by some of it) you would drink to the Great and Glorious Spam Filter daily, as we do, remembering when we cleaned off 300-400 spam comments every day on each of three blogs. So please remember this and just click post ONCE. Thanks!
March 21st, 2006 at 8:48 pm
The three blogs? Have I missed something?
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:40 am
I have two other blogs on different subjects, both woefully neglected at the moment.