Unintentional Comment Removal
May 20, 2010 Uncategorized
Dear Carpe Diem Readers:
I have just been made aware that some comments on certain posts might have been removed in the last few days. However, in at least several cases, I was not personally responsible for the comments being removed, so it might be a temporary Blogger issue. So just in case any of your comments have been removed inadvertently over the last few days, I apologize and will monitor the situation until it gets resolved. Under normal circumstances, fewer than 1 out every 100 comments gets removed, and in about 75% of those cases it’s a case of spam, where a comment contains a link to some commercial website that is advertising a product or service, and in the other 25% of the cases, the comment is removed for being overly offensive and insulting. But those removals are rare exceptions, and for the most part “anything goes” in the comments section. Although I don’t often respond to the comments, I do read almost all of them, and often learn from them.
Mark
