If you have looked in on the blog today, you will have noticed lots of spam comments. I've been cleaning them out every time I check in, but this is by far the worst spam attack I've yet seen. And it's weird spam too -- It just seems like randomly generated garbage which isn't even trying to sell anything or bump the link counts of spam blogs.<\/p>\n
At any rate, it finally just got too bad to keep up with, and I have broken down and installed the \"WP-Spamfree\" plugin, which is supposed to be very good about blocking spam comments from \"bots\" without rejecting comments by legitimate humans. We will see!<\/p>\n
If you think it is blocking your comments by mistake, let me know at closings at columbiaclosings dot ocm<\/p>\n
There is still a list of words, by the way, that will get your comment sent to the approval queue so that I have to manually let it go through. This includes lots of brand names for medicines, the words\"insurance\", \"poker\" and a number of others -- If your comment doesn't go through immediately, wait a bit, and if it's legit, I should approve it from the queue next time I check in. This is *not* related to the spam plugin, and has been in effect for months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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