If you submit a comment and it is held for moderation, it is not your fault, probably: we’re having problems with Akismet, our spam filter software, and it’s holding up a lot of people’s posts. We’ve got TOP PEOPLE working on it, so just be patient. I’ll be browsing the bloated queue of posts held for moderation later, sometime after work. I might approve your delightful comment then. Or I might cast your worthless screed into the eternal flames of perdition, which I happen to have burning right here by my right elbow.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Oh. I had hoped I was considered dangerous.
My Firefox absolutely hated Pharyngula yesterday, kept getting indigestion. Hope it behaves better today.
That smells like a health and safety violation! And sulphur…
HOW DARE YOU NOT RESPOND TO MY IMPORTANT COMMENTT INSTANTLY. PZ MYERS IS PERSONALLY TRYING TO SILENCE DEBATE. SO MUCH FOR FREE THOUGHT!
Does that about summarize your inbox today?
If I told you we’ve got TOP PEOPLE working on it, would you believe it?
No? Well, would you believe we’ve got two high school kids with acne and absolutely no social life working on it?
No? Well then would you believe we’ve got a chicken and a keyboard with corn sprinkled on it?
I heard that you all have TOP and BOTTOM people working on all sides of the problem.
Tony! #6
It’s okay; they also have some strange and charming people working on it.
Whilst poopyhead tried to disguise it by using ALL CAPS, the key is the “top people”. That’s a code for Pee Plop Toilet. which explains where the comments are going and what is really being done to them.
OMG, you’re right, PZ. The commenting system is so broken that only terrible comments are getting through!
[waiting to see if my terrible comment makes it]
Well, guv’nor, that’s yer problem right there. Akismet, she were a goddess of Ancient Egypt, she were. The goddess of social justice warriors and some people with a bit of an occasional cough. And in one of them upper Nomes, she were worshipped in her lesser incarnation as a cobra-headed revenge guardian incarnate. Yer’ve really got ter watch them incarnates.
I’d carve her glyph on yer bog wall for yer, but yer never know just what it might summon.
Not too surprisingly, the least mention of the great goddess Akismet summoned her ineffable One Diktat Unto Humanity: “Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Abide by the One Diktat. Or else.
Heh. I assumed my comment was held because it happened to contain the moniker of a certain thundering fool.
The eternal flames of perdition is where my worthless screed COMES from.
Getting it to go BACK requires a level 37 lawful good cleric with a staff of eternal banishment and 3 vials of holy water.*
Good luck with that…
*Plus it saves on 11+
I got a moderation warning for posting about the Lace Bug. Evil hemiptera, evil!
And since we’re on kind of a meta topic anyhow, may I mention that the “new” main page still sucks big time? Utterly useless.
So basically some person is wheeling all the posts into a giant warehouse?
Trebuchet @15:
re: the main page-Completely agree.
The Bobs?
@ Tony & Trebuchet, main page.
Main problem with the main page is that there’s no “list all the latest posts, by date” view – and certain blogs don’t show up there at all.
Those uppity Akismets – some of them are outright anti-kismets.
I miss the good old days of disenvowelment.