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Comment issue

Seems a few folks’ comments are getting gobbled up by my spam filter. I try to monitor it but, frankly, I get so many spam comments per day, it’s difficult to keep up with. So, if it happens to you, it’s not personal. But let me know. One hint is stop using the word socialism. Because it contains the name of common ED drug that spammers like to spam about.

11 Responses to “Comment issue”

  1. rickn8or Says:

    I haven’t noticed posts disappearing, but over the last couple of days, my e-mails of other’s posts have been showing ’ where an apostrophe is supposed to be.

    I don’t know if it’s an issue with hotmail or on your end.

    Any other hotmail users seeing this?

  2. Sigivald Says:

    Substring matching is usually a bad idea – the Scunthorpe problem.

    (I’d rather just have a reCaptcha system.)

  3. KM Says:

    Somehow “so-dicksohardyoucouldkillanelkwithit-m” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

  4. Arizona Rifleman Says:

    For WordPress, take a look at the Conditional Captcha plugin. It’s pretty clever: for all comments that pass the standard Akismet checks, it doesn’t get involved at all. They get posted (or held for moderation, etc.) normally, just as they would before.

    However, for things that Akismet thinks are spammy, the commenter is presented with a captcha (either a locally generated one or a recaptcha — I recommend the latter).

    I have mine setup such that comments that pass Conditional Captcha are held for moderation (just in case, but you could also have them go live) while those that fail Conditional Captcha just get silently deleted (though you could hold them in the spam folder if you want to make sure you’re not losing legit messages).

    It’s basically solved the spam problem for me.

  5. Robert Says:

    rickn8or Says:
    December 9th, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    I haven’t noticed posts disappearing, but over the last couple of days, my e-mails of other’s posts have been showing ’ where an apostrophe is supposed to be.

    I don’t know if it’s an issue with hotmail or on your end.

    Any other hotmail users seeing this?

    Getting symbols like that instead of the appropriate punctuation is usually a sign that the source character encoding is mismatched with the character encoding being used by the program displaying the text.

    Uncle’s blog is set to ISO-8859-1, so I’m guessing Hotmail and/or your browser is using the standard UTF-8.

  6. TS Says:

    Dude, if I can’t bitch about social-ism on the internet I might as well unplug all together.

  7. mikee Says:

    Test: Viagra

    I had to know.

    *See, I had to approve this one* – SayUncle

  8. M. Murcek Says:

    Just as well, it’s communism all the way down and should not be sugarcoated. Call it what it is…

  9. JK Brown Says:

    Well, communism is just social…. with gun control.

    Conspiracy theory about the name of that ED drug. It’s a naming was a plot?

  10. Will Says:

    Robert:

    I’m seeing that sort of thing with ads on Craigslist. Particularly vehicle ads that are scams that originate from outside North America. LOTS of scam ads on CL in cars&trucks.

  11. Robert Says:

    Will: In those cases, either they’re copy-pasting from a text file which has a different character encoding than what Craigslist is using, or they’re introducing it deliberately in order to make the posts more searchable so that whoever they’re working for can verify their output.

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