05.07.11
A word on commenting
DD apologizes if your comment has not posted quickly or has been lost recently. (One went missing today.)
The blog attracts a lot of spam.
Humans and bots are constantly working the archive.
One of the new techniques is to upload some content actually sort of relevant to the general topic of the post. It’s done by those in the blackhat SEO business, almost always for siphoning traffic through backlinks to business and foreign investment stock trading, dodgy financial products, tax avoidance and offshoring websites.
And while I don’t moderate comments the spam filter has gradually ramped up. In the process it catches some legitimate commenting which I then retrieve from the filter before they’re deleted.
I’m not always perfect at it. So if something went missing, and I’m sure some things have, I apologize.
I’ll try to fix it.
Chuck said,
May 9, 2011 at 8:57 am
As an occasional commenter, I’ve long assumed that if my comment doesn’t get published on your blog, it’s because that you didn’t think it worth publication.
So you’re saying that this isn’t true?
George Smith said,
May 9, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Yeah, in the past year I think I’ve punted only one comment and it wasn’t any of yours.
For some reason I can’t fathom yours not infrequently wind up in the akismet spam filter. I’ve retrieved almost all of them when I’ve noticed, in which case they publish late. In fact, this one — totally bafflingly — wound up in the filter.