A housekeeping update to readers

I’m afraid I owe my readers an apology, so: I’m sorry.

Here’s why:

I’ve never had a formal comment policy and I tend to exercise a very light touch, deleting comments only that cross the line into inappropriate insults from one commenter to another, or to obscenities, which rarely happens.  And for a long stretch I was getting a lot of spam — you know, the sort of comments with “earn $575 without leaving your house,” which I dutifully identified as Spam and maybe Disqus taught itself how to identify spam because I haven’t had to do that in a while.

But somewhere along the way, Disqus also began moving “real” comments into the Spam folder.  I’m not sure what the logic is except that these seem to be particularly long and/or link-heavy comments, but only when a commenter mentioned that his post seemed to have been caught up in a filter and I checked on this, did I find out that I had a significant number of “real” comments in the spam box, which I’ve now approved.  The particular discussions those comments were intended for are in the past now, but if you made such a comment and wondered what happened to it, well, that’s what.

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