Hey Searchbloggers:
Some of our most avid readers are having problems with the “human detector” on Searchblog, and can’t post comments. In fact, I can’t post myself! I’d like to get to the bottom of this, so can you guys help? Can you try to post a comment on this post, and if it works, great, we’ll see that. If it does not, can you send me an email (jbat @ battellemedia dot com) with your OS, browser type, and the comment body text? I’d be very grateful. The “human detector” is doing a great job stopping spam, but lately, it seems to be doing a poor job at detecting humans. Thanks!
Update: Thanks for all your help. I think I may have figured this out, or at least, we’re closer. Seems that if a commentor posts a comment with three or more URLs, his or her comment is automatically labeled “junk” – and that kicks in all sorts of other complications. Have to pry apart the various throttling technologies like Akismet from the human detector, but for now, I think that’s the main issue. If you post a comment, please keep URLs to one or two, until I figure out how to fix it…thanks.
Windows XP, IE
test comment
Windows XP Prof.
IE 6.0.2900.2180.xp_sp2
I think this is much better. Jeremy from Yahoo uses his first name instead of “F”
FF 2.0, Linux
Windows XP Pro SP2, IE7
Looks A-OK to me
Testing Windows XP SP2 with IE6
Hi John,
We get bombared with spam so I can symapthise!
Win XP, FF ver 2.0
Dave? What are you doing, Dave?