Since Barack Obama’s entry into the presidential horserace, and especially since the election, the number of legitimate reader comments winding up in my “moderation queue” – the place where my blog’s publishing software stacks up comments that have “questionable content” – has skyrocketed.

Now, if you include links in your comments, your comment automatically winds up in this blog’s moderation queue; many/most “spam” comments include links in an attempt to crank someone‘s traffic up.

But lately, there’ve been more link-less comments ending up in moderation – indeed, quite a few.

It has a lot to do with the fact that the economic philosophy that many on the right would accuse the President-Elect of espousing – socialism – has embedded within it the name of a rather common anti-impotence drug that is the subject of a hell of a lot of spam.  It’s one of the good-sized list of keywords that my blog filters just to make sure the comment is legit.
So if you plan to write comments about “socialists” and so on, either don’t be alarmed if it doesn’t get published until the next time I get online…

…or call it something like “fabian statism”.

Thanks.  That is all.

This entry was posted by by Mitch Berg on Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 6:00 am and is filed under Capitalism v Socialism, Geekery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.