Six months ago I did not know that you could check for comments that were spam. I had no idea what spam comments would be.
So for blogger if you go to comments , you will find a small triangle to the center left above comments. Click on that and you will find a list of spam.
Now the spam comes in many different colors, sizes and shapes.
For some reason other bloggers comments are sometimes judged to be spam. These you can identify and click on publish and the comment will be published.
Much of the spam is made up of my comments and replies to other blogger comments.
Then there are just plane unwelcome comments as some jerk who thinks that all old people should be put to death as they are a menace to the planet.
I had not looked at older spams until this week. It seems that some comments made by new readers are identified as spam. This bothers me as I don't want to be considered rude as if I'm not publishing a comment. It also seems that some of my followers are quite often identified as spam. For example the blogs by Bill and Jenn are quite often flagged as spam. So for a long time their comments were not published on my blog.
So I would suggest that bloggers check the spam file often and keep it up to date. Comments are a very important part of blogging and we want all comments to be published.
