{sigh} Funny about Money’s “Comments” function was briefly disabled. It should be working now, but may go away again if the current problem persists.
The site has been receiving a lot spam comments that override Akismet. These are then forwarded to my e-mail account, and then each message has to be deleted and each pending comment marked as spam manually. This nuisance is compounded by still more spam, some of it pretty nasty, attacking my business email account — in fact, it appears that account may have been hijacked or otherwise tampered with.
At any rate, when our redoubtable Web Guru installed an additional spamblocker to backstop Akismet, the effect was to interfere with all readers’ attempts to leave comments. So…if you got a message in your browser that your javascript wasn’t working or that you couldn’t leave comments, try again. You now should be able to comment on any recent posts.
Meanwhile: commenting on all “pages” has been permanently turned off, as has commenting on older posts, since pages and superannuated posts are the most frequent spamming targets.
You know, the whole comment spam thing mystifies me. I don’t understand what these people expect to accomplish. Do they really think bloggers are going to accept ads for ED drugs or long lists of keywords and links? Do they not know that most of the time WordPress no-follows links in comments? Who pays them to do this, and why?
Same puzzlement applies to e-mail spam. Is it someone’s idea of a joke, or do they really think people are going to run out and buy their gonad enhancers? Do people get paid to send that stuff out? To what end?
I hate the spammers. So many, too. Glad to be commenting now, not as spam! 😉
Bizarre phenomenon, isn’t it? Oh well…like the country song says: God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.
Holy Crud!! I thought something was wrong with my “ol’ computer”…ran thru all the diagnostics and was getting ready to take the plunge and buy a lap top or tablet….I’m with ya on these folks who do this kind of thing…. and what possible reward that can be gained. DW had a nasty virus on her lap top some time ago and the “tech-guy” who fixed it claims it’s an ego thing with these types. IMHO there will be a special place in hell for these folks….
Oh dear! I’m sorry.
At first I thought the same thing, but am too harassed with other concerns just now to think about trying to figure out javascript problems. Eventually realized the contraption was working on other sites, which raised a suspicion.
Well, it explains why FaM isn’t getting any comments anymore…that’s something, I suppose.