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I have no idea what happened but everything went into the spam filter there for an hour. I fished them out and tried to fix it.

Update. All of the comments from the last two threads were going into the spam filter and then people who commented there continued to have everything go into the spam filter. I tried deleting those threads to stop this. I hope this is fixable. One easy fix is to comment with your same name and a different email. I tested that out. Another is to change your name slightly. Then you go into pending and once you’re approved, you’re good to go.

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  2. 2.

    Dee Loralei

    Elizabeth Warren retweeted something I said and is now following me on twitter! I can’t go all fan girl stalkerish and shout my glee on twitter! I can’t jump up and down at home, because people are sleeping! So you guys get my silly, silly fangirl glee!

    And no, John Cole doesn’t follow me! LOL

  3. 3.

    mclaren

    No, the spam filter is functioning properly. Everything spewed out by 99.99999999999% of the commenters on this forum amounts to spam, from the gibberish vomited out by cranks like General Crackpot Fake Name, to the sociopathic lunacy that erupts from drivel geysers like eemom.

  6. 6.

    Warren Terra

    As long as we’re complaining about crap on the internet, all day the banner ad at the top of the site has been pimping the godawful Broderite cult that wants us to be ruled by, according to their own name, an “American Select”. I just thought I’d mention how much those assholes tick me off.

  8. 8.

    Litlebritdifrnt2

    My most precious darling Judy chose Thursday October 13, 2011 to slip over to the Rainbow Bridge, on her own terms, and by her own rules. She jumped up onto the bed and snuggled up to me, and there she slept. At some point of me extracating myself from her body and going to work and my Mum getting up and checking on her she chose that moment to go to the rainbow bridge. I have no idea why, other than the fact that she was an 11 year old boxer and way older than she ought to be, she was still puppy like the day before, she frolicked in the yard with Cueball, she ate her dinner as heartily as any dog ate her dinner the night before. And yet, and yet, she knew it was time and she chose to take her leave while Gramma and Norman were visiting, in order to give me arms to grieve. There has never been a dog more perfect than Judy, a charming young lady, who always knew her manners, who was always a perfect polite boxer. I am slobbering at her loss, Cueball is beside himself with grief. Mum, Norman and I went away for the weekend after she died and her loss was out of my mind for a while, but now I get back to the house and she is not there, there is no joyous welcome, and her absence is palpable. I know that I was holding on way past the years that I was allowed to have, but damn, I would have wished for a few more days.

  9. 9.

    Warren Terra

    @Warren Terra:
    And having said that (but for some reason lacking permission to edit the comment), the top banner ad is now for “Public Strategy Associates”, who apparently want to help me out by fulfilling all of my lobbying needs in the Alabama state legislature. I’ve never been within a hundred miles of Alabama. WTF?

  11. 11.

    Warren Terra

    @Warren Terra:
    And having said that, the ad is now for “Public Strategy Associates”, who apparently want to help me out by fulfilling all of my lobbying needs in the Alabama state legislature. I’ve never been within a hundred miles of Alabama. WTF?

    This would have been an edit to my earlier comment, but I can’t get permission to edit it. And now my comments are disappearing into the ether – not getting Moderated, just vanishing. DougJ, what did you do to the commenting system?

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    I don’t know if this is related, but the site has been loading strangely all day for me as well. I figured it was just FYWP being quirky and didn’t think much more of it.

    EDIT: And that one came right up. FYWP. No really.

  17. 17.

    jwb

    And we lost the previous post.

    ETA: Disregard, as that was my test. I lost a comment into the spam filter on the previous thread, but it’s working now.

  22. 22.

    jl

    Blog still eating my commments.

    Sorry about L’s dog. Sounds like was a sweet pet.

    This blog don’t work to well sometimes, and starts throwing away comments, with not pattern, rhyme or reason that I can see.

    I figure just part of the dysfunctional charm of the miserable lefty blog.

  28. 28.

    jl

    The blog is F’d up. Last post went away. Comments being eated and pooped into an alternative dimension.

  29. 29.

    Villago Delenda Est

    OK, if we’re bitching about ads, I’d like a shout out to Fred N. Sauer (it’s possible I’m related to him, that’s my paternal grandmother’s surname) and his obviously idiotic book…idiotic because this very country was founded by liberals. You know, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin…those guys, who started an insurrection against a bunch of royalist and corporatist assholes a couple of centuries back?

  34. 34.

    jwb

    Except the one I just posted, which I assume is in the spam filter (and this one will probably be there as well). Leaving comments as to my actions in hopes that it helps debug.

  44. 44.

    RareSanity

    This all seems quite ominous Douger.

    I think, as a safety measure, we should move our blog readiness level to DEFCON 4 for the time being.

  45. 45.

    scav

    Jumping into the whirling wall of spam filtering with joy. Condolences, disttain and random bits of text to all as appropriate. eoiflxlhv xkh fd phrn d !

  50. 50.

    scav

    Something’s really really wrong. Nothing ated me. Again? This one I’ll test editing on.
    ETA. Edited. Ated?
    WTF: Nope.

  53. 53.

    RareSanity

    Wait, wait…WTF?

    Now I’m getting the dreaded “site survey” pop-ins?

    Ok people, we are through the looking glass here. I’m moving the level to DEFCON 3.

    There is something brewing…

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    RareSanity @44:

    DEFCON 4 low, DEFCON 1 high.

    /Pedantry mode still functional?

    ETA: The disappearing-comments weirdness seems to be related to whether you are replying to another comment or just blatting it out there. Replying gets my comments disappeared; blatting works.

    And I see that RareSanity appears to have a correct grasp of the DEFCON hierarchy. Kudos to you. Pedantry withdrawn.

  61. 61.

    eemom

    btw, this all happened after YOU said mean shit about me and burnsie and JMN in YOUR FP post.

    Jussayinzall.

  65. 65.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    What probably really needs to be done is that someone needs to, at least, recycle the WP processes on the server.

  67. 67.

    andrewsomething

    The Drum thread had about 70 comments visible for me. Seems like a strange move to delete your post and all the comments, especially since Drum showed up to defend himself. The whole thread disappeared before any one responded.

  68. 68.

    jl

    I thought everyone knew that this here weird blog was weird and didn’t work right a lot of the time.

    DougJ: your last post on the dumb thing Drum typed on current fashion in reporting on US Senate is still missing.

  69. 69.

    RareSanity

    @Steeplejack:

    DEFCON 5 – All is well
    DEFCON 1 – Holy shit, we’re gonna die!

    I moved from 5 to 4 in the first comment, now we are moving it to 3, after I received a pop-up to take a “site survey”

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    RareSanity @50:

    Pedantry withdrawn. You appear to have your DEFCON shiznitz in order.

    Commenting problem seems to be related to whether you are replying to another message or just posting. Replying (currently) bad, posting okay.

    ETA: FYWPWAVRPF!

  79. 79.

    Rare-Sanity

    DEFCON 2!

    DEFCON 2!

    Comments being eaten! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

  80. 80.

    andrewsomething

    Well FYWP. I seem to have gone off to spam land. Strange as in the other thread my post made it through….

  83. 83.

    jl

    Bwah ha ha ha! You silly earthlings. Your measly tests mean nothing in the face of the FYWP comment disintegrator rays!

  85. 85.

    RareSanity

    DEFCON 2!

    DEFCON 2!

    Comments being eaten! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

  88. 88.

    Sentient Puddle

    I’m confused. Does this mean that the rest of us will trip the initial poster filter and need to be approved again, or something?

    I guess I’m about to find out.

  93. 93.

    jl

    Bwah ha ha ha! You silly earthlings. Your measly tests mean nothing in the face of the FYWP comment disintegrator rays!

    But if you keep trying, FYWP will get vewy vewy agwy!

  101. 101.

    jwb

    If I just write something with no links will it get posted without moderation or going into the spam filter?

  105. 105.

    scav

    Yeah, FWYP and the various associated gods (GSD, FSM, et al) really don’t want us to have a reply button.

  106. 106.

    RareSanity

    @ asiangrrlMN

    I came across this pic, I had been saving it all week for you. Quite fitting considering the men in purple’s performance tonight.

    http://i.imgur.com/96M4i.jpg

    I’m sending it now, in a non-clickable form, because (a)I don’t think there may be a chance laterm and, (b) formatting make break the blog.

  113. 113.

    slag

    Just don’t reply directly to anyone or edit anything you write, and you’ll be fine. It’ll be just like reading The Daily Dish.

  125. 125.

    RareSanity

    I can’t bear the carnage…

    I think I’ll just go to bed and hope the blog fairy visits while I’m sleeping.

  126. 126.

    slag

    If someone’s going to fix this problem, could that someone also look into why I can no longer reply to comments via my Android phone? Just wondering.

  131. 131.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Someone at Hosting Matters, or whoever Cole’s techie is, will likely need to get this fixed.

  133. 133.

    4jkb4ia

    Immigrants being killed by an electric fence is NOT funny. Rather, Cain’s statement was absurd. But FYWP isn’t letting me say that.

  134. 134.

    RareSanity

    In light of some of the successes I’m seeing, let’s move the level back to DEFCON 3.

    However, remain vigilant…

  135. 135.

    scav

    GSD I love the internets. Especially the testing from the interior of the meltydown and moving tubes portions of the delirium.

  136. 136.

    suzanne

    @Litlebritdifrnt2: Hugs. Judy sounds like she was a wonderful friend who gave you many years of happiness. I hope that, soon, you’ll be able to remember that stuff, and think less about how much it epically sucks right now.

  138. 138.

    suzanne

    So I can post profanity, but not sympathetic words to L on the loss of her puppeh. EFF YOU DOUBLE-YOU PEE.

    Edit: My sympathetic words are stuck in moderation. After all the times I’ve handed FourLoko her ass, look what happens when I go and try to be nice! FUCK.

  139. 139.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    After all the times I’ve handed FourLoko her ass, look what happens when I go and try to be nice!

    Charming.

  143. 143.

    Warren Terra

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

    Seemed an appropriate way to see whether my comment would publish.

  144. 144.

    Warren Terra .

    I have eaten
    the comments
    that were in
    the blog

    and which
    you were probably
    trying
    to post

    Forgive me
    they were delicious
    so sweet
    and so cold

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