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.<\/p>\n
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<\/em>‘s traffic up.<\/p>\n But lately, there’ve been more link-less comments ending up in moderation – indeed, quite a few.<\/p>\n 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 <\/em>of a lot of spam.\u00a0 It’s one of the good-sized list of keywords that my blog filters just to make sure the comment is legit. …or call it something like “fabian statism”.<\/p>\n Thanks.\u00a0 That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSo 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…<\/p>\n