Comments on: Dreamhost Not Asshats After All (With Their Blog, Anyway)

By: dr Dave

dr Dave — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:15:10 +0000

SK2 will, in some cases, retroactively moderate comments… This is to catch potential flooders who may have posted already a large amount of comments that were let by.
Usually though, you would need to post *a lot* of comments over a very short period, and keep going despite having some moderated, before SK2 starts resorting to retroactive moderation…

This option, as any other, can be configured in SK2′s admin screen (you can set what SK2 should consider “a lot of comments” and “a very short timespan”)… In there, you can also see each and every comment approved or moderated by SK2, resuscitate false positives and see a detailed breakdown of the reasons SK2 thought a comment was spam (allowing you to loosen up whichever setting failed).

Cheers

By: David Krug

David Krug — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:43:31 +0000

Hey, look Jeff my sites down again. I’m sure if I get upset this time and even once go look at the dreamhost status blog I may get comments eaten.

http://celebritycowboy.com/

By: Jeff C. @ DreamHost

Jeff C. @ DreamHost — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:41:20 +0000

Thanks for the retraction!

We just wanted to get the word out that we’re not censor-happy – with our blog or anyone else’s. If any comments get eaten in the future, let us know and we’ll see about whitelisting you in SK.

Thanks again,

- Jeff C. @ DreamHost

By: Huw

Huw — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:33:16 +0000

I did an interview with Josh Jones, CEO of Dreamhost, a couple of weeks ago for a web dev podcast, PodDev, that i’m involved in. We asked about their stance on using the blog to communicate with readers, comment censorship etc.

http://poddev.comitar.com/2006/10/08/poddev-3/

Josh Jones is towards the end if I remember rightly.

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:27:08 +0000

What? You’re not the Spam King?!

; )

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:01:40 +0000

As I said — I don’t know if its true or not, I’m not a spam whiz, or “king”, but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt. ;)

Cheers
t

By: Cary

Cary — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:54:32 +0000

Hehe… I’ve been using SpamKarma for a year and a half, and have never heard of it automatically removing a comment *after* it had alreay allowed it through.

I suppose there’s a first time for everything ; )