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I’ve noticed that both here and my other blog, I get a message about once a week that people can’t leave short comments. I ASSumed this was a wordpress thing and didn’t dig into it too deeply until I got two messages today about it.
Turns out that WordPress sets the minimum character as 1. Anything else is affected by a plugin (modification, for you non blog running people). Both my blogs have many of the same plugins but I deduced, after some trial and error that the issue was with a spam filtering plugin. Comment spam is a pretty huge problem on blogs.
I use two spam fighting plugins- Akismet and WP Spam Free. The culprit was WP Spam Free. It does not appear to allow for comments below 15 characters. I’ve disabled it for now, to see if I get any spam. Akismet should be fine for the low level of comments and popularity of this blog. If that changes and I start to get a lot of spam coming through, I will have to turn it back on. It just seems to be a bit much and I’d rather get a short comment than none at all.
Please let me know if you find anything else acting strangely. I value opinions and want reading and discussing topics here to be a breeze for all!
Thanks,
The Management 
February 28, 2010 1 Comment
