The past week or so, a lot of people have made comments, both here and in private e-mail, about what puts a comment into Moderation. A lot of “every time I do this I end up there,” or “I always do this so I never end up there.”
I understand the human desire to bring order to chaos, so it pains me to say — as the person who rescues comments from Moderation — that apparently all the theories are wrong: there are a few words that trigger Moderation, and always have, but other than that it really is random. Where you post from doesn’t matter. Links don’t matter. Having a Samoan e-mail address doesn’t matter.
What triggers Moderation one day might not the next day.
One of my comments ended up in Moderation last week, and that’s supposed to be impossible.
Y’all feel free to continue speculating if you want, but you’d have better luck trying to ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
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And occasionally the moderation fairy picks a random person to put all of their comments into moderation for a while, and then just as capriciously, ends that, perhaps to move on to someone else.
I wonder what will happen if I put “42” into a comment. Probably nothing, but it’s worth testing.
Precisely, Arthur.
My ninth grade math teacher did the same thing, so I understand the principle well.
I have noticed what some others reported, that lately including a link has greatly increased the chance of a post going to moderation.
Yeah, but it’s very annoying when *EVERY* one of your posts ends up in moderation and when such a period *never* ends.
Perhaps the program has become sentient and it is a comment on quality? Trying to weed out the bad comments? :)