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Help! Would you please try to add a comment here, and let me know if you have any problems?<\/p>\n

[Update] Thanks for the help — things seem to be working better now.<\/p>\n

Flooded With Comment Spam<\/h3>\n

Over on the Contextures Blog, I’ve been flooded with spam comments. The Akismet plugin catches some of the comments, and puts them into the Spam list. However, there is still a long list of comments in the Moderation queue every day.<\/p>\n

Most of those Moderation comments are spam, but I don’t want to accidentally delete any of the valid comments. I appreciate it when someone takes the time to add a comment, and don’t want to lose those.<\/p>\n

I accidentally deleted one of Dick Kusleika’s comments yesterday, because something in his comment was on the “banned words” list. No, not his name \u2013 I had blocked “SEO” because of all the spam on that topic, and Dick’s blog is dailydoseo<\/strong>fexcel.com.\u00a0 Oops!<\/p>\n

So, it takes a while to check through them, approving the real comments, and trashing the rest (carefully!)<\/p>\n

Growmap Anti Spam Plugin<\/h3>\n

Today I installed the Growmap Anti Spam Plugin, which might prevent some of those fake comments from being posted.<\/p>\n

It adds a check box below the comment form, and the comment is not accepted unless you check that box. That sounds easy enough, but sometimes things don’t work exactly as expected.<\/p>\n

If you add a comment here, and have any problems, please let me know. ddalgleish AT contextures.com<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n

______<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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