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A Little Hiccup With The Comments -- Our Apologies
from the sorry-about-that dept
As a few of you noted via email this morning, it seemed like our comments weren't working on the site. It seems that the anti-comment-spam system we've been using went a little haywire and appears to have sent a bunch of comments down a blackhole somewhere. Obviously, this is not a good thing -- and we're redoing some of the code to make it a bit more durable (sending someone down the blackhole to retrieve the comments apparently is not recommended). Apologies all around... but please feel free to repost any comments you may have made earlier. We really regret the inconvenience and are working to make it unlikely to happen again.
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Deleting Comments
Awww I was waiting for the "Techdirt censors their comment section" comments to start getting posted agian :)
GOM
Signatures are for Wimps........Doh!!!!
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Pity
Unfortunately, your system wasn't tuned to "that certain someone's" postings...
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oh noes!
Cipher Trust strikes again!
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mea culpa?
Straight up admission for something gone awry? An apology and explaination? Seemingly in earnest?
There'll be no USAdministration placement for you!!
:-) BTW - Thank You
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Compensation!
I demand a refund of everything I've paid Tech Dirt!
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Right on!! Thanks for the update - it's very much apreciated
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cool
at least i know it's not my pc puking again. thanks for the update and keep up the good work. by the way if u do send someone down the blackhole could they bring back my emails that yahoo sent their a few years ago?
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Well, I said it before and i will say it again..
I think tha
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can i get mine back?
i spent a bit doing some real research to debunk someone...any way i can get you to forward my feedback back?
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coverup
comment spam
comment spam
comment spam
I sense a coverup. A decided lack of stories this morning. What kind of virus was it?
comment spam
comment spam
comment spam
Man if it doesn't filter this, it isn't working.
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Re: coverup
I sense a coverup. A decided lack of stories this morning. What kind of virus was it?
Huh? Who said it was a virus? It wasn't. It was just that the comment spam filter went down, and since all comments run through that filter, the comments all disappeared. We now have it set to bypass the filter if the system goes down again.
Man if it doesn't filter this, it isn't working.
Wouldn't you think that the comment spam system is a bit more sophisticated? How many comment spam comments use the phrase "comment spam"?
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The Shocker....
Sometimes I enjoy making objects disappear into my own black hole. *wink*
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hrm..
That last comment was plain scary...
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Don't pay any mind to Jabba the Hutt. The only thing he's ever shoved in a black hole is a few twinkys from the kwicky mart.
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Re:
Holy cow!!! How did you even KNOW that my favorite sci-fi character is Jabba the Hutt?
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Holy cow!!! How did you even KNOW that my favorite sci-fi character is Jabba the Hutt?
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Don't pay any mind to Jabba the Hutt. The only thing he's ever shoved in a black hole is a few twinkys from the kwicky mart.
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StinkyJones
My advice is ye best beware of the scurvy cur known as "StinkyJones". Many a cold, lonely night at sea can make a sailor loose in the mind as well as other places...
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test test
testing...
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testing...
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I hate spam. While growing up I thought I hated hamburger, but then I found out my Mom was passing spam off as hamburger and hamburger off as steak.
So Mike by all means filter that retched spam.
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So if the steak was hamburger
So if the steak was hamburger what was the steak? Was it a spam hamburger mix with A1 sauce?
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Re: So if the steak was hamburger
Musta been PORK.
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anti-comment-spam system ... went a little haywire
I don't like any kind of spam...
canned spam, fried spam, broiled spam, or boiled spam...
e-mail spam, comment spam...
spam blogs and spam pages - (content is worthless and not original, but rates high on the search engines; pulls in traffic that may click on ads)...
While I don't get a lot of visitors to my blog, Out 'n About, about half the ones that do get through are comment spam.
I hate spam of any kind!
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I HATE SPAM 2
I really hate spam too.
My site, StraughanPhoto, has never received a hit from comment spam. Please do me a favor, and let me see how many people actually click on this link if TechDirt does not remove it!
Thanks!
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I wondered wtf was going on
spam spam spam buy viagra here now. only four dollah.
Im am going to sue you for making my comments disappear.
Actually, I'm just not gonna post on here or read it anymore, because Techdirt sucks now. Wasn't bad for a while though, but all good things must come to an end I guess.
Professor Highbrow has retired from Techdirt
--Prof. Highbrow.
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