{"id":3249,"date":"2007-03-13T22:57:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T05:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/13\/problems-leaving-comments\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T22:57:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T05:57:36","slug":"problems-leaving-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"Problems Leaving Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nexy reports<\/a> that’s she’s been having problems leaving comments on “Alas” and other wordpress blogs. She’s not the only one; I’ve had similar reports from Jake Squid and Defenestrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s normal for comments to sometimes be put into moderation; when that happens, you should see a notice saying that the comment is in moderation. But what’s happening to some posters is that their comment just fails to appear, without any notice at all. When this happens, the most likely culprit is the Akismet <\/a>spam-blocker, which is now automatically built into WordPress blogs.<\/p>\n

If this has been happening to you a lot, you might want to go to the Akismet contact form<\/a> to let them know you’re not spam.<\/p>\n

If you think Akismet has mistaken a comment you left on “Alas’ for spam, please email to let me know immediately and I’ll try to rescue it. But it’s important to contact me quickly — I get over 400 spams a day, so I can only find yours while it’s near the top of the pile. “Akismet” is supposed to be learning software, so if I keep rescuing your comments and telling it that you’re not a spammer, eventually it should get the idea and stop mistaking your comments for spam.<\/p>\n

If nothing else works, you can also email me a comment and I’ll post it for you.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, blogspot has been keeping me and (I suspect) many other people from posting comments — the word verification image isn’t loading (Nexy <\/a>has a screenshot), and neither is the disabled access alternative verification. If you have a blogspot blog, you should consider turning word verification off.<\/p>\n

(Of course, by the same token, I could turn Akismet off. For me, 400+ spam comments a day is enough so that I need a spamcatcher that’s genuinely effective at catching almost all the spam, and Akismet really is better than any other spamcatcher I’ve tried. But it’s my impression that I get more spam than many bloggers do.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nexy reports that’s she’s been having problems leaving comments on “Alas” and other wordpress blogs. She’s not the only one; I’ve had similar reports from Jake Squid and Defenestrated. It’s normal for comments to sometimes be put into moderation; when … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}