1000 comments

Joseph Huang aka bftjoe posted the 1000th published blog comment. (The number of rejected spam comments is much higher, unfortunately. So far I have rejected only 1 non-spam comment for content.) This blog entry is the 314th, so it averages a little more than 3 comments per entry.

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krasi0 on Saturday, June 24. 2017:

Congrats on reaching this high number. BTW, I've noticed that not all of my comments register on the site. Not sure if the missing ones have been rejected based on content or spam :P

Jay Scott on Saturday, June 24. 2017:

Uh oh, it’s the first I’ve heard of that. There must be a bug in the blog software or its setup. :-( Most spam is *very obvious*. I’m confident that I rarely mistakenly reject a comment as spam, and never one under a name that I recognize. I enter my comments using the exact same system, giving myself no special privileges, and after approving comments I read them on the site. And I haven’t seen this problem, so I’m surprised. Is the effect that the message appears to post as usual, but never appears?

krasi0 on Sunday, June 25. 2017:

yeah, I remember having seen the "post successful" (or similar) notification but when revisiting the comments section later, I was able to see some new comments appearing while mine was still not there. It's happened at least 2-3 times IIRC.

Jay Scott on Sunday, June 25. 2017:

The only way that should happen without a bug is if you check back while I’m in the midst of approving comments. That should be rare. I’ll investigate.

Jay Scott on Sunday, June 25. 2017:

I turned on a logging option that should let me see if any messages get rejected behind my back. As far as I can see, that should only happen for comments that are more spammy than the actual spam, so I don’t know what’s going on.

Jay Scott on Saturday, June 24. 2017:

I should add that it’s normal for a comment to take hours to appear. Besides everyday life that pulls my attention away, I’m in a different time zone than most commenters and a lot of comments come in while I am asleep.

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