The slime who use blog comment systems to peddle their often-fraudulent crap are innundating this and other blogs with spam. Luckily, the Akismet spam filter traps most of them and you never have to worry about seeing this garbage.
But the deluge is such that hundreds are now showing up in the filter each day. I used to be able to go through the quarantined spams, looking for “false positives” — that is, genuine comments — and mark them as OK. I no longer have the time to do this, given the large number of spam comments I have to wade through.
This means that some of you may have tried to post a comment and had it swept away with the spam. If so, I apologize. If you did try to post a legitimate comment and didn’t see it on the page, please contact me and I’ll try to help.
Meanwhile, the spams will continue to flood in, and I’ll continue to delete them.
on Feb 15th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Having faced the same issues, Dan, I’m equally glad for Akismet.
Some commenters need to be aware that it’s their own fault that their comments got swept into the filter.
People who want to remain anonymous and still have their comments posted should consider whether the phony e-mail address they use is part of the problem.
I’ve advised several people to change their phony e-mail address to another phony one, and it’s kept their comments from Akismet-dom.