Hello, lovelies – a word in your shell-like, if you wouldn’t mind awfully. Our dear spam filter silently removes thousands of comments unfit for your delicate eyes each week. As our readership grows (hooray!), so does the spam count (boo!) Alas, Spam-o-Tron is not a perfect immortal machine – some stuff still gets through, even despite the captcha check we introduced recently.
We’re working on a larger-scale defence against these unwanted pill’n'handbag’n'essay’n'WoW-gold bot-marketeers, but in the short-term we’ve had to turn up the severity of our spam filter. Though the vast majority of posters make it through without a hitch, this has meant that more legitimate comments than we’d like are getting snared in its digi-nets. Unfortunately, it is now getting to the point where manually retrieving all of them is becoming impossible. So, here are a few comment-preserving tidbits to keep in mind if you’ve lately found yourself suffering spam-o-tron’s sporadic wrath.
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