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First time commenters may experience a delay; lost in the spam
August 10, 2009 | 11:30 am
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By Paul Biba
It’s time to repeat this message for our new readers. When you comment for the first time your comment will be held for approval before it is posted. After your first post all your comments will go up immediately. It is important that we vet the initial post since we can get over 1,000 spam "comments" a day and we don’t want any spammer to get a blanket approval. Since I have to review all new comments, myself, there may be a delay until I can get to them, but don’t worry it will go up.
It is also possible that your comment may get lost because of our spam filter. Since January we have had over 130,000 spam comments that have been caught before being posted. I delete these spams twice a day because I notice that they can slow down the site. If you’ve been caught by the filter then your comment will be gone. If this happens to you please let me know and I’ll try to see what I can do about getting it corrected. Some email addresses, however, seem to trigger the filter and there is not too much we can do. Given the volume of spam we get, allowing spam through by "softening" the filter would result in our having to shut down the comment system. Sorry, but that’s life on the Internet these days.
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Comments:
Why don’t you use Akismet to automatically filter spam? I originally let it flag all suspect spam but nowadays I trust this free WordPress service enough to delete anything it judges to be spam.
Hi, Laurens. Akismet is our filter, but unfortunately we have false positives. I understand that the real problems are generic–not limited to TeleRead. Thanks. David
And sometimes Akismet will pick on one of our regular commenters and treat him as spam, no matter how many times we approve the post. We get quite a few false positives and strangely they are mostly from regular posters.
@Paul: sometimes Akismet will pick on one of our regular commenters and treat him as spam
Like me. I’ve posted dozens of times, but the last several times I’ve posted my comment never showed up. I doubt this one will, either. The site having taken a dislike to this nym, I moved on to another, which hasn’t yet had the same problem.