I thought I would discuss comment moderation in a brief post. First I am against comment moderation in general. I think requiring that every comment be moderated hinders open discussion. Blogs like the Post & Email moderate every comment. Sharon Rondeau unevenly and unfairly IMO allows people who agree with her to make threats and post all sorts of false claims. On the other hand I have seen her not allow through factual and documented comments that contain content that go against Birther memes.
The setting I use here sends your first comment into moderation and if it is approved you should be able to comment without it going into moderation. I have noticed lately some comments are still going into moderation that should not. WordPress.com uses Akismet to filter out comments from known spammers. I have seen rare instances where some legitimate comments were trapped by Akismet. I try to check the spam folder frequently to approve any that get caught wrongly.
Comments that contain too many links will also be flagged and moved to the spam folder. That number is is set pretty high so it should not be an issue with legitimate comments.
If you comment using a different email, WordPress.com ID, or using something like Twitter for logging in then that will be treated as a new comment and placed into the moderation folder.
If I continue to see comments going into moderation I will report it to WordPress.com
The comment policy for the RC Radio Blog remains unchanged:
Comment Policy
The views expressed in comments may or may not reflect those of the owner(s) of this blog or the Reality Check Radio program on BlogTalk radio. Comments posted from first time commneters are moderated and additional comments will be moderated until one is approved. After the initial approval comments are not moderated unless they violate this comment policy. Comments may be identified as spam if they contain too many links. Comments that are abusive, profane, or left by those who appear not to be interested in honest discussion may be placed in moderation or deleted. The owner(s) reserves the right to edit or delete comments. Comments become the property of the RC Radio blog. Any edits will be noted in the comments.
I will not post or divulge identifying information such as email addresses and IP addresses without consent of the commenter. However, comments containing threats may be reported to the proper authorities along with identifying information.
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😆 The problem with comments going into moderation seems to have gone away.
Off Topic: Is FogBow down for everybody? Are they under attack or something?
Yes, it is down. Foggy says his hosting company had a server crash.
https://www.facebook.com/The.Fogbow
Sounds bad:
I’m waiting for the usual birthers to come out of the woodwork and claim that Foggy is in hiding the cold cuts posse is going to arrest him and he’s on the lam!
I think even the die hard Birthers have lost all faith in Zullo and in Gallups for that matter. They had four years of Trump to trot out their super dooper evidence and did nothing.
There are still a few, but their numbers seemed to have lessened. I don’t think Rondeau is doing anyone any favors with her excessive and lengthy screeds against Montgomery.