Comments on: HAL

By: Grray

Grray — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:00:14 +0000

This is really hampering my efforts to counter the spin of the repub apologists. JJ, this filter obviously isn’t working as it should, can’t you pls stop this experiment and switch to another software?

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:11:38 +0000

Jeff, Spam Karma (you should be running version 2) is less aggressive than version 1, but it’s still quite … well, you’ve discovered.

Dealing with spam shouldn’t be such a chore. (Actually, we shouldn’t HAVE spam in the first place, but that’s another discussion…)

I strongly suggest you try Bad Behavior to plug up the broken levee through which your spam is flowing.

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:06:38 +0000

And, as you can see above, since the admin can approve filtered comments manually, sometimes this leads to double postings. The first ‘double’ comment above was prevented by the system, JJ must have manually posted it. Not knowing this (no mindreading device here), I posted it a second time with other IP and username. So instead of preventing spamming, this filter leads to a high chance of double comments. Ridiculous!

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:01:13 +0000

It’s a strange spam filter, for sure. The behavior of this software is totally erratical. Sometimes you can post for an hour, next time error messages come after every single comment. That’s a Dell product?

But if it thinks you’re a spammer it tries to keep you out very forcefully. IP, cookies, Username, maybe mailadress 2 are checked. It’s possible to work around this, but it’s annoying.

Mr. Jarvis, if you don’t want active participation of commenters here, why don’t you tell us in the first place?

By: Greg Burton

Greg Burton — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:39:27 +0000

Ah, that explains how a well-reasoned piece of literary legerdemain gets flagged as spam. Thanks for letting us know, Jeff.

By: Ravo

Ravo — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:56:03 +0000

It is shutting out commenters after each post. One must close the screen and type in the buzzmachine.com url after each comment, instead of taking us back to the main page.

Hardly friendly!

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:27:54 +0000

You sure it’s a bug, not a feature? I mean, this is pretty convenient in surpressing commentaries from people that critizise you (like yours truly)…

By: GR4Y

GR4Y — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:24:41 +0000

You sure it’s a bug, not a feature? I mean, this is pretty convenient in surpressing commentaries from people that critizise you (like yours truly)…

By: Snarking David

Snarking David — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:21:48 +0000

Darn! I thought I was getting special treatment in getting all my posts banned.

By: Angelos

Angelos — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:19:01 +0000

Cialis!

By: GR4Y

GR4Y — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:06:09 +0000

Yup, I had some comments lost because of this, but now I know how to circumvent that. Good luck with finetuning the filter.