For the longest time, I was thinking… people haven’t been commenting on my blog lately and I was sorta sad. Turns out it was my fault. Whenever WordPress puts a comment into the moderation queue, it sends me an email alerting me that a comment is being held for moderation. However, about 2 months ago, I started getting spam in that email address, so I blocked it in my control panel. Apparently, I forgot to update that WordPress with a new email address to send me the notifications.
So today, when browsing different parts of WordPress, I landed on the comments section and noticed I had 94 comments in my queue (those which passed Akismet). Of course, when rerunning the comments through Akismet again, it drop down to 35. I believe the actual number of comments was around 25 which actually approved.
Therefore, in order to make all comments equal, here are the lists of post which had comments that have been held in comment for way too long (in no particular order):
- Six Flags Discount (~50% Off)
- How to download HD Trailers from Apple.com
- Cascada – Everytime We Touch
- Happy Birthday Liam!
- Ultra-Pasteurized Milk
- HD-Trailers.net
- Missing Codecs in Firefox to Play Video in Gallery2
- LeekSpin
- Poker Riddle
- Sherbert vs Sorbet
- Rebates
- Hecho en México
- Death Note
- Microsoft Health Screening Results
- Convert APE to MP3
I’ve been tempted to just like Akismet be the spam filter and not go through the moderation process. However, seeing how 94 comments drop to 25, it still shows Akismet has some work to do.