Now Coffee Filtered Wouldn't Be So Bad, But Spam Filtered? Boo!
So I've just confirmed with another blogger that comments I leave on their blog are being automatically spam-filtered. And as she said
I did search for a recent comment from you ...and found it amidst my spam. And not just comments awaiting moderation, but the 'bad' spam. LOL
Craziness. Every time I catch a comment of yours, I mark it as 'not spam'. Which *should* mean it doesn't keep snagging your comments.
I already knew blogging systems that use the popular (and otherwise generally excellent) Akismet kick me to the curb- and some other systems drag me down too. Now it looks like [Blogger's correction: Wordpress! --fl] is doing it as well. That's ok, sort of... something about a URL with text "real adult sex" in it maybe? And, after all, my *original* idea when I saw the URL for sale years ago was to start a straight-ahead progressive political blog with a minor in 1st Amendment issues precisely because I *knew* it would get filtered and nanny-netted.
What's bugging me a bit more, though, is that I might be getting filtered when I comment using my alt-URL on Blogger, figleaf.blogspot.com and alt-email address ("talkingfigleaf" on the gmail system.)
Anyway, two questions:
- Anyone else with sexually oriented but non-spam content think their comments are getting filtered?
- Has anyone else checked their moderation lists for incorrectly marked comments? (This might not be worth your while and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't bother.)
I promise I might be irked but I'm not offended if my main URL is being spam-filtered, although I'd like to politely ask policy administrators on the big filtering teams to add me to their white-lists. Unless their algorithms just don't work that way or, of course, if they honestly believe I really am some kind of spammer or my content is really that inappropriate.
(Note: As chance would have it I've been so busy for the last three months that I've barely had time to keep up with the comments on my blog, let alone comment heavily on other people's. Yet sometime in those three months I seem to have been plunged into black-list oblivion.)
Figleaf,
Obviously I use the same URL as you when I post a comment at another site and my experience has been the same: my comments have been banished to the horrid spam filter where they must wait (poor dears!) sitting cheek-to-jowl with sleazy penis enlargement ads. If my comment does not appear, I usually send the blog owner an email asking that she or he rescue my poor comment. Even when the realadultsex.com URL has been added to a blogger's safelist, my comment can be swept away with the spam.
The only way I found to circumvent this is to omit the URL from the personal info box when I submit the comment, which I prefer not to do. However, if I submit a comment on a blog using Blogger, my Blogger ID will link to my profile, which lists the realadultsex.com URL.
Maybe we should have a separate blog for posting comments which would link back to this one. How about PersonaNonGrata.com?
Hope this helps.
Both of you have always been spam filtered at my site; in fact, you're the main reason I check my spam queue to rescue comments from it (although occasionally someone else's real comment will wind up there). I've been using Akismet all along, but now it's supplied as one of the default Wordpress plugins, so that may explain your increased problems with filtering.
I mentioned this problem in my latest Download Squad column: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/02/compartmentalize-or-youll-get-20-lashes-unless-youre-into-t/