For the past couple months my spam filter (Akismet<\/a>) has falsely identified a rather large number of legitimate comments as spam.<\/p>\n (For those of you who arrived on the internet yesterday, “spam” is off-topic comments trying to get people to click on links to buy things.\u00a0 Mostly it is left by “bots” that automatically scan the internet.\u00a0\u00a0 When I installed a second layer of protection called “Cookies for Comments”<\/a> a few months ago, Akismet was processing over a million spam comments a month, causing a slowdown on the wall.org<\/em> server!\u00a0 The vast majority of these were caught and removed by the filter, but sometimes it gets it wrong and lets spam through (a “false negative”) or rejects legit comments (a “false positive”).<\/p>\n I’m periodically checking the spam filter to rescue these false positives (just did 2 today), but you can help me out by doing the following:<\/p>\n Christ is risen from the dead,<\/strong> –Paschal troparion<\/a> For the past couple months my spam filter (Akismet) has falsely identified a rather large number of legitimate comments as spam. (For those of you who arrived on the internet yesterday, “spam” is off-topic comments trying to get people to … Continue reading \n
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\nMy spam filter keeps a copy of all comments flagged as spam for 15 days, so I probably don’t actually need this, but rarely there are other technical problems that cause comments to disappear.
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\nIf you are an insecure person, please don’t waste time worrying that maybe you stepped over an invisible line and accidentally insulted me, and therefore I blocked your comments without telling you. \u00a0 If you are a flesh-and-blood human being, your comment was probably legitimate.
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\nWhile I do<\/em> occasionally remove “by hand” comments that violate the rules<\/a>, I generally try to notify the person by email, or in that comments section,\u00a0except for the worst<\/em> offenders.\u00a0 So unless you went on a blasphemous tirade or are an obviously-insulting troll, that’s probably not you!\u00a0 (And even if that is<\/em> you, you are certainly entitled to respectfully ask by email\u2014once, anyway\u2014for an explanation of why your comment was deleted.)
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\nObviously, I promise not to give your email address to the spammers, or otherwise share this information without your permission!
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\n Trampling down death by death,<\/strong>
\n And upon those in the tombs<\/strong>
\n Bestowing life!<\/strong><\/p>\n
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