Spam Alert
Man, when Stephen first upgraded my blog to the new version of WordPress, my spam count went down to almost nothing. It was so nice! But now, a few months later, the spam demons have found me again. Not as bad as they were before, but it’s getting up there.
Luckily, the new WordPress makes deleting spam a lot easier than the old version, in which I had to deal with each comment. Now I can just hit “delete all spam” and poof, it’s gone.
The one problem I’m having is that sometimes a legitimate comment finds its way into the spam folder instead of actually posting or going into the pending folder. I try to glance through the spam folder to make sure I’m not deleting a valid comment, but when the spam numbers are up over 100, I don’t always have that much time.
So, I just wanted to mention it here and say that if you posted a comment and it never showed up, it might have gotten deleted as spam. If that happened, I’m sorry! I definitely wouldn’t have done that on purpose!
If you post a comment and it doesn’t appear on the site, you’re always welcome to shoot me an email and let me know. Then I’ll know that there is a reason to comb through the hundreds of spam messages.
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“What will it be, Ma’am?” asked the waitress (who looked a lot like Graham Chapman). “We’ve got Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam.
I’ll have Spam on Spam, with a side order of Spam, please. Hold the Spam.”
I’ve had several legit comments end up in my spam folder lately as well.
The other weird thing is that the majority of my spam messages are comments on one particular post — the one where I linked to the new EDF flash fiction blog. I wonder why that one is such a target — because of the link and the graphic?
Ah well… who can tell with these spammers.