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If you try to comment, and it doesn't show up or tells you that your comment has been either moderated or sent into the spam bucket, PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO POST AGAIN. You will make it much harder for me to fix, and other comments won't go through either.

The spam filter works something like this:
1. You post a comment.
2. Spam filter checks your comment to make sure you actually submitted it through the comments form (because bots don't actually load the comment page, they just submit a comment.) It also checks to see if the comment was submitted on an entry from a long time ago. People post on recent entries, but spam scripts love to submit comments on entries which are two years old. This catches 99% of spam.
3. Spam filter checks to see if your email address, name, and IP address match any approved comments on the site, or any previous spam. If your comment was rejected before for whatever reason, it has been marked as spam until I get around to checking the site and fishing it out.
4. If your comment came out looking good, previous and further posts get marked up. If your comment came out looking like spam (because you submitted 3 comments in 2 minutes, for instance), previous comments will get marked down further. This can cause a comment which WAS in the moderation queue to go straight into the spam bucket. I always read the moderation queue, but the only time I delve into the spam bucket is when I know that posts are getting eaten.
5. If your comment was determined to be spamlike, your IP address is added to a blacklist, meaning further comments won't succeed, and will in fact drive your previous unapproved comment further into the ground.

The reason I have this filter on here is because of the sheer amount of assholes who want to use my site to increase their Google ranking. As much as I'd like to go without filters, if I were to do that my site's comment section would soon resemble a wall in south central L.A. I don't want that.

SO IN CONCLUSION, if your comment doesn't show up, JUST WAIT until I can get around to pulling it out of moderation. Better yet, send me an email. I know Ian and a few other people here have had to put up with this, and I'm sorry. I've just cleaned out all the blacklist entries so everyone should have a clean start again, and I've tried to up the scores on all currently approved comments, so if you've successfully posted a comment in the past it should still work.