Fri 25 May 2007
If you left a comment in the last 2 weeks, and never saw it appear, I’m sorry. I think it is gone forever.
I just deleted not quite 3,000 comments awaiting moderation. I did not have the brainpower to see if there were any real comments buried among the comment spam attempts to sell me (and you) porn, drugs, porn, ringtones, porn, currency trading software, porn, penis enlargement products, porn, and by the way, did I mention porn? (Heh. Someone has hacked an insecure server at harvard.edu and has apparently put up porn. MIT, I’m looking at you.)
Sorry. If you re-comment, I’ll try to moderate more quickly so you actually get posted.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:01 am
do you use akismet? i never check through all of the spam comments - akismet has never once included a real comment in the spam and i trust it now. yay akismet!
May 26th, 2007 at 9:19 am
also, you probably already know this trick, but i’ve reduced the amount of spam comments i get by closing the comments on the old posts that tend to get deluged with them. (in my case, it’s posts with swears or multiple punctuation marks in the title.)