A Note About Spam Filters and Comments

June 11th, 2008 | by: Laurie |

A few of you have gone through the frustration in the last day or two of having your comments sent to the Spam bin. Our spam filter, SpamKarma, has also done this to me on some of our other blogs, so I know firsthand how frustrating this is.

But don’t give up! We want to hear from you!

The problem seemed to be that the filter was set to flag people who comment more than a certain number of times in a short period (several hours or days.) In other words, it was not set up for tournament times, when all of us want to read and write and comment on everything that goes on, and the more frequently the better!

I’ve gone in and readjusted the spam settings, telling it to allow more comments from individual commenters before rejecting anything. This should fix the problem. (While, with luck, not allowing actual comment spam through.)

If it doesn’t solve the problem, I want to know so I can fix it! If you’re having problems, please drop me an email at laurie[at]theoffside[dot]com.

Thanks for your patience, and we ARE looking forward to hearing from you!

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Spam has ruined the net experience for all of us and there is nothing we can really do about it. It is very unfortunate but at least we have learned to cope with this nuisance.
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spam, disgusting
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LOL!!! She puts a picture of a can of spam for the blog entry! What’s not to love about Laurie?!
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