A friendly reminder about leaving comments

Dec 06 2009

As Brad’s Reader gets more and more comments, the number of spam comments has also increased. I don’t see a lot of them because of the filter I have in place, but a few do sneak through. I generally try to give people the benefit of the doubt, although it can be a tough call sometimes.

To keep your comment from being flagged as spam, please use the following guidelines:spam

- Write something more than “Great post.” Comments like that instantly send up a red flag. Keep your comments relevant (and specific) to the post’s topic.

- If your URL has anything to do with viagra, fast cash loans, work from home schemes and the like, your comment will probably get flagged as spam.

- If you have a request (i.e. wanting to use a post as a reference, etc), send it to me directly using my contact page. Using the form sends your message directly to me. Unfortunately I’ve seen some of these requests/questions get flagged as spam.

- If you left a comment and it did not show up on the post within 24 hours, it could have been sent to the spam bin. Please contact me and let me know so I can correct the issue.

I encourage everyone to leave comments on anything I post and I’m pretty liberal about what comments I allow (even if they are borderline spam). If you’re a first time commenter I have to manually approve your comment before it shows up. I’m pretty fast at approving comments (thanks to my iPhone and cool Wordpress app), but sometimes it can take a while. All comments are always approved within 24 hours.

I always encourage comments, even if you disagree with what I said in a post. As long as your respectful, I welcome your dissent.

Keep them comments coming!

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