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Comment Spam Weirdness
by Ted Slater on Dec 19, 2007 at 11:28 AM

The Line is hosted by TypePad. For the most part we're very happy with their service.

They've recently reconfigured our comment spam filter, however, and it's wrongly stopping a lot of legitimate comments. Hmf.

I've submitted a help ticket with them, and am awaiting their reply. Thanks for being patient as we work our way through this problem. Please know that we don't consider you to be spammers.

Comments

1

I had two comments that were flagged as spam. I think it was the length of the post as both were fairly long.



2

I chopped my comments up after they were flagged, but then found the longer versions were posted anyway. Is it possible to remove the duplicates?



3

My last post had to be seriously edited to get past the spam filter. I had listed too many cars that get over 35mpg by brand name I guess. My editing diluted my argument a bit.



4

I think the boundary is 24 or more lines in the comment



5

I've left a few more help tickets with TypePad -- I'm eager to see them acknowledge their error and commit to fixing it. My comments are even being blocked now....



6

When one of my comments was blocked, I thought "I guess they've had enough of me, and now they've blocked me."

Good to see otherwise.



7

Ted, you're probably a spammer.



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