“when you say nothing at all”

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The other day when that plane decided to gracefully land in the Hudson I decided in return I would txt my mom that I had not randomly decided to go to North Carolina and therefore was not on that plane. She txted me back that she was glad to know this and that her comments left on blogs lately weren’t showing up on blogs, that she thought she had been blocked from blogs. I was appalled that blogland was blocking MY MOM so I txted back that I would check it out after work.

When I got home I told Dawg about this and he checked the Cereal Wednesday spam and sure enough there were two comments from my mom sitting in there. Nothing unique about her comments in terms of criteria. They had her blog name that she’s been using for quite a long time now associated with the comment, no links, no caps, no yelling, no extra punctuation, no random words thrown together… Nothing heuristically weird. Dawg unspammed the comments and that was that.

And then he found one of my comments on Through A Dog’s Eye trapped as spam. So Dawg unspammed that.

And… well, now ToB is talking about it. And I’m not liking what I’m hearing so I’m just spreading the word: If your blog spams comments and you have access to the spammed comments you might want to sift through them occasionally while the filters are being too aggressive just to see if someone you actually care about has been leaving you comments.

Or don’t, c’est à vous, I’m just trying to be helpful here, you don’t need to make a big issue about it, crying out loud. hmph.

back to me

15 thoughts on ““when you say nothing at all””

  1. This is because the interwebz knows you are spamming people’s comments looking for backlinks.

    Wait.

    That wasn’t you.

    I really have no idea why it happens… but I still :pinkpuffyheart: you.

    P.S.
    Your comment in the Spam Filter was on my photoblawg… not CW.

  2. Ooooooops, fixed the post. I still :pinkpuffyheart: you too even though I know you are The Spam Filter of the Blogosphere. :grins:

  4. The only time I noticed comment getting spammed on my blog is if it’s a new commenter or a backlink.

    I just hate when I can’t leave a comment at all because I need to have a Blogger account or whatever. That sucks!

  5. I’ve been having a lot of people end up in moderation since I upgraded to WordPress 2.7. And I’ve had to rescue one or two from spam. Wonder what’s up with that?

  7. Yup I am with Finn on this one. The upgrade on WordPress to 2.7 is ending up with much more comments checked as spam that shouldn’t be. I’ve tried adjusting about every setting I could think of and nothing makes a difference *sigh* All Hail WordPress Updates!

  9. Blocking mom’s texts? Now that’s faulty filtering. Kudos to moms and dads who are participating in the discussion.

  11. Mom is the spamming queen,
    young and sweet
    only she’s not seen.

    Spamming queen, read the feed
    from that poppy cede, (oh yeah!)

    You comment,
    you can wriiiite
    (a)kismet might block you tonight (ooooooo)
    See those two, watchdog’s keen,
    approve the spamming queen.