Overzealous Spam Blocking

So, in case you haven’t noticed, sometimes when you comment on a post, it doesn’t appear on the blog right away. This is due to the spam blocker I have, and it usually does a great job. But every now and then, it flags some legitimate posts as spam, and I have to go and approve the posts. I check the spam queue several times a day, but it has led to a good four-five hours between comment posting and me catching it.

It appears to be sensitive to more than one link in your post, which includes linking your homepage URL. Essentially, if you have your blog name as your URL, and are directing users to a specific thread on your blog, it’s going to get flagged as spam. To make sure that your post goes through, I’m going to ask that you use one or the other until I can figure out how to fix this. If you don’t care about the delay for me to “approve” the post once the spam blocker catches it, then by all means, continue what you are doing. It’s up to you really. Just wanted to make you all aware of the situation.