If any of the following appear in your comment, it needs administrator approval:
(Some political hack words), (obscenties), (name calling keywords)
Experience has shown that there typically isn’t anything intelligent attached to those comments or the comment will tend to be inflamatory by its very nature. New words are added all the time. There are roughly a dozen IP addresses that will trigger a comment automatically into moderation. If a particular comment appears inflamatory, a contributor may ‘unapprove’ it, thereby placing it in moderation pending the post author’s approval. If a comment has more than two links it is placed in moderation automatically.
If your comment disappears immediately upon submission, Akismet has most likely claimed it as spam. Don’t bother retyping and posting it again. It should appear in a half hour. I’m not thoroughly familiar with Akismet, but the following tend to provoke its ire:
- Posting any kind of link without having posted to VN previously. This includes a homepage link.
- Posting multiple links.
- Having been banned at other sites. The lazy man’s way to ban something is to pop their IP address into the SPAM blacklist. If having been notified that you are banned, you continue to attempt to post at those sites, your SPAM score is higher.
I would heavily caution against arguing over what and who gets moderated. That is what email is for. I would also caution against typing equivalents of these keywords to get around moderation. If you aren’t typically moderated, the most likely reason for your moderation is a keyword or links.
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