doctorvee

In the space of two days, I received two emails from people who had posted comments that didn’t appear here. It turned out that Spam Karma had gobbled them up. Thankfully, they were recoverable. But I also discovered several other comments that had also been caught up!

I’m a bit annoyed about this, as I don’t know if this has been going on for a long time, or just for the past couple of days. It seems to have mainly affected people who have not posted many comments before.

So I’ll have a look into the matter, but at the moment it looks like I’m going to have to uninstall Spam Karma. Because not only is it catching legitimate comments, but it has also been letting spam comments through occasionally for a month or so now.

Spam Karma is having a tough time though. Recently this blog received its 100,000^th spam comment. This is in comparison to less than 2,000 blog posts and around 3,700 legitimate comments.

Update: Having had a look at the comments that I have recovered, I am guessing that quite a lot of comments have gone missing over quite a long period of time. I’m not certain about that, but that is my guess. If you’ve ever submitted a comment and been greeted by a blank screen after submitting it, your comment has probably been lost.

Thanks to Ali and Ollie for pointing this out to me.

Update: I’ve taken the opportunity to (at last) upgrade to WordPress 2.2. Just watch, WP 2.2.1 will come out tomorrow!

I was going to work on Scottish Roundup first, but since I’ve started on this blog now I will be doing some much-needed tinkering over the next couple of days.