Hey, Brainiacs –

As you may or may not have noticed, we’ve been having a fair amount of comment spam get through the filters lately. I’ve killed them as quickly as I can, and I suspect that Steve has done likewise.

I find it annoying, as I got spoiled at how good our filters have been until recently.  Something seems a little off-kilter, as, additionally, a few comments that shouldn’t have gotten filtered have turned up in moderation.

If there’s a delay on one of your comments appearing,  you might want to make sure that it doesn’t have more than one URL in it and that your return email address is either blank, or not ‘fishy-looking’, whatever that might be. You might want to also leave the field for your website’s URL blank.

For what it’s worth, we generally don’t hold or delete comments unless we find them to be obvious boilerplate or the most crude of trolling. Simply disagreeing with somebody generally won’t get you filtered out or deleted, unless you engage in less-than-entertaining ad hominem attacks, or you deliberately try to piss Caroline off and fail to do so.

Hugs,

Rory