I’ve noticed lately that several legitimate comments have ended up in my spam filter.
If that happens, I apologize. I believe I fished out all the legitimate comments, but if you posted a comment and it didn’t show up, it probably got caught by my spam filter. If that is the case, e-mail me at connect (at) patthorntonfiles (dot) com, and I’ll fish the comment out myself.
I almost never delete comments. I’m a very light editor of comments. Spam is the No. 1 way to get a comment deleted.
This trend seemed to start when I upgraded to WordPress 2.5, and seems to have cooled down lately. I was thrown off a little bit when some of my regular commenters were showing up in my spam queue.
On a more positive note, the JI has officially stopped more than 20,000 spam comments.