Legal Commentary

Trouble With Our Comment Spam Filter

By Eugene Volokh

Since Thursday, our comment spam filter has been producing a lot of false positives, so that non-spam comments are being blocked. I?ve been trying to check the spam folder every several hours and revive the comments, but that?s a slow and not entirely reliable process. We?re also checking into what the underlying problem might be, and how it might be avoided; I hope that will be taken care of soon, but I?m not sure when.

Unfortunately, the one thing we can?t do is turn off the spam filter ? we get about 1000 spam comments each day (real spam, not false positives). So I just wanted to keep you folks posted, and apologize for the problem.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on October 25, 2010 (boomark / email).