rexjameson said:
@Craig, having problems commenting on your blog. Sorry if I sent you 2 comments. It didn't say anything about the comment being accepted, under review, or anything. Very weird.
Sorry if there's problems.
I use some very standard tools... WordPress as the blogging solution, plus the Akimet plug-in to weed out spam. And my comments are fully moderated, meaning they don't appear until I approve them.
I have a couple other plug-ins as well, one called CommentLUV, which attempts to identify you by your email and insert a link to YOUR latest blog post, as a nice "thanks for commenting" type of thing.
I'll look into my blog and see what the issue is, and if it's fixable/what I need to do to fix it.
Also, I have noticed WordPress itself is having some troubles lately... esp. with Stats, but it might be affecting comments as well.
EDIT: Both your comments are now approved and live. I suspect the issue has been either the problems WordPress has been going through this last week or so, or maybe there's an option I need to click in Akimet to generate a "Your comment is pending approval" sort of message.
Akimet sometimes categorizes legit comments as spam, even though I can overrule it and rescue them easily. Something about getting a "hashcash value of '0" which is something I don't even pretend to understand.
But here's why I use Akimet: my author's blog is only a few months old, and I've received something like 36 or 38 legitimate comments. Love every one of those!
In the same amount of time, it's blocked over 200 spam comments, most of which are nonsense and/or links to porn sites.
My older blogs have it worse... one that is about five years old has a ratio of 21 legitimate comments to about 36,386 blocked spam comments... almost all of which, again, linked to porn sites.
So that's why I use the Akimet plug-in...