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Shameful honor or honorable shame?

August 26, 2008 - 2:11 pm - by Richard Fernandez
cedarford
2008-08-26 19:38:44

I once was blocked at another website by the spam filter. Unfortunately my solution was highly annoying to other commentors. I divided up my long post by halves in smaller and smaller sections that either got blocked by the offending word or phrase or went though as posted fragments because they were free of it.

Finally, on a discussion about poverty on Indian Reservations, I tracked down the offending word – “casino”. Apparantly on the list of “banned words” that no poster is aware of.

Doug and Wretchard appear to have encountered a more sophisticated censor software, that goes on profile….

In any case, what is really needed is for the blogging industry to upgrade their software – and say WHY a post or comment is blocked in an error message.