My spam-catching software keeps track of how much spam it catches, and today it reached the 10,000 mark.
What a pain all this spam would be to deal with without helping software!
Occasionally a legitimate comment gets held up for a while, until I find it and give it my O.K. (I skim over everything for a look before I delete), and usually this false-catch occurs when the commenter has posted links (especially multiple links) in the comment. So if you post a comment with links and don’t see it appear, it doesn’t hurt for you to post another comment—without any links in it—saying that you posted one that didn’t appear: that way I know to look for the missing one in the spam-queue.
So… sorry for the inconvenience if you’ve ever had a comment get delayed in its posting because it got caught by my spam-filter. Think about the flood of spam that this site gets and try to be forgiving about having been inconvenienced.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that I can permanently clear anybody that has been falsely caught and thereby prevent the software from ever false-catching their comments again if they once again post a comment with links. But the software shouldn’t pick on them afterward either. So don’t be afraid to post comments with links—just be aware that there may be a delay before such a comment appears.
Often the comments that get falsely caught are ones in which there has been a lot of time and effort invested. I appreciate it when such effort is made! So, please don’t mistakenly think that I am trying to discourage your efforts if you’ve had a comment get held up.
It has been very very very rare that I have deliberately deleted anybody’s comments (I’ve done this when people have insulted other commenters or get extendedly off-topic in a game-topic-oriented thread). People are certainly allowed to disagree and argue with anybody—including me—as long as they do so in a civil and constructive (non-troll) manner. For extended off-topic conversations, please place them in any “monthi-versary” comment thread, instead of in game-topic-oriented threads.
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And here I was expecting another spoof thread. XDD
Hi, how are you ?
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I was lurking on a French Rule of Rose forum, and I found your website. First, I wanted to congratulate you, I’m really impressed by your amazing work and your reflexion ! I read all the blog, and reading your theories are really interesting. Moreover, there a lot of things that I couldn’t have think by myself ! (hey I feel stupid now because of you
I love Rule of Rose, it’s a fantastic and terrible game. Too bad that this game is so much underrated, isn’t it ? :/ I love it, but at the same time, I find this game too much depressive for me ! (really I cried at the end of the game, the good ending lol). But I sold the game cause I needed money. Now that I found your site, I want to buy the game again and play once more ! Thanks a lot
(oh sorry I talked too much of my life :/ and excuse my bad English !)
See you !
Welcome, Saika!
Your English is very good, although I wonder if “terrible” in English and “terrible” in French are a little bit different.
Thanks for the kind words about my theories.
Please feel free to join into discussions and disputes.
Don’t worry, I didn’t make a mistake :p “terrible” in English is like “horrible”, that’s what I meant. Rule of Rose is fantastic and at the same time terrible (the story), and in French, “terrible” means at the same time “horrible” and “terrific” (hell yeah, I’m glad to be French, cause if I wasn’t, it would be a harsh pain to learn it…)
Well now I stop chatting, I’m looking forward to see your next entries and theories
[Monty Python springs to mind...]
What sort of stuff would be posted without the Spam Filter working?
MincePiePrivateEye asks:
A very common type of spam is a large block of text that is full of English phrases strung together in a nonsensical way and interspersed with links that most often seem to relate to pharmaceutical products.
Another common type of spam offers a very general sort of comment that has no specific references to anything. There are no links in the comment itself, but if you click on the user-name it takes you to some commercial location.