Comments on: Comments and conversations

By: tf

tf — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Strange, I’ve been banned twice just for disagreeing with you.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

No one gets banned for disagreeing with me. What makes you think you were? I have no one on my banned list who isn’t a comment spammer, to the best of my knowledge.

I have some fairly strict comment spam filters that reject several hundred (sometimes several thousand) bogus comments per day. I just looked through my logs and didn’t see anything that’s been rejected that appears to be a false positive. If you are trying to post something that gets rejected, send me an e-mail and I’ll look at it.

By: qaz

qaz — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I disagree.

By: tf

tf — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

What makes me think so?

I posted some comments. You got angry and disagreed with me. Seconds later when I went to post, my comments no longer appeared?

Pretty fcking simple for me to think so…

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I keep a log of every comment that’s posted to this blog and every deletion. There’s nothing in it that supports what you say. I don’t delete comments except on the very rare case when they’re obscene or when they’re comment spam.

You posted two comments on April 6, both of which disagreed with me and both of which are still visible, plus two this week. Your name and IP address don’t appear anywhere else in my logs.

By: tf

tf — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Ed, I had to use differnt names, emails, and IPs to get around your blocking me. And a couple of times the blocks were eventually removed… don’t know why or when this happened, but it did.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

That could explain part of it. There are some domains whose strings are automatically blocked or held for moderation. In that case, if someone posts a comment, it appears to go through, but it may get automatically deleted. And in some cases comments that are held for moderation can get deleted automatically if they arrive at the same time as a bunch of spam and I’m deleting a mass of e-mail.

Anyway, you now have five posts on my site, four of which tell me I’m wrong. I think that establishes my point pretty well.

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PHOSITA ::: an intellectual property weblawg — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

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