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On Commenting…

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging

We have a automatic comment policy here on Donklephant. The spammers won’t read this so I feel safe to talk about this information.

So, if you have more than two pointer URLs in your comment, it will be held for moderation. Sorry, but that’s how it goes. It doesn’t mean we think your comment is dangerous, bad or blah.blah.blah. It’s just that we don’t want to automatically approve comments that have those in them, because that’s the hallmark of spammers.

Hope this helps.

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One Response to “On Commenting…”

Bob Aman Says:
February 14th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
You guys are obviously using WordPress… have you tried using any of the spam protection plugins? I personally use Typo, so I’m pretty much immune to spam comments, but with a decent filter, most people find that they might remove one or two spam comments that make it through in maybe a month or so. I’m not sure what the best filters are, but I’ve seen a lot of people using Spam Karma 2.

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