One of those days
Bookworm on May 03 2008 at 7:17 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Blogging will be nonexistent this morning, although I may be able to pick it up a little in the afternoon. This is one of those “all about the kids” Saturdays, with my son having a musical performance 40 miles from here, my daughter having swimming time trials all morning, my son having a baseball game followed by a team picnic followed by a slumber party, my daughter having a slumber party, and my husband and I having tickets to a show. I’ve made a promise to myself not to sleep through the show.
Hope all of you enjoy a great day. Also, subject to the usual rules of civility that govern this blog, feel free to use this post as an open thread. The one thing is that, if your comment gets eaten by the Askimet maw, it will be several hours before I’m able to force Askimet to regurgitate and let your comment see the light of day (which is longer than the usual 1 hour day time turnaround I have for Askimet releases).
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http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/05/msg-brendan-oco.html
has a post up about a Special Forces group that was ambushed by a company + strength Taliban force south of Kandahar.
http://faustasblog.com/2008/05/empire-strikes-barack.html
Don’t miss this really funny video about Obama in Star Wars. It’s actually funnier if you just listen to it instead of watch it.
What Askimet tells us about its product:
- How does it work?
When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.
- What stops the system from being gamed?
Well without giving too much of the secret sauce away, we can safely say that it would be pretty difficult to poison Akismet. We use dozens of factors to determine the spamminess of a submission, and we also have an identity attached to everyone using and contributing to the system, which allows us to do some interesting things with weighting and clustering activity.
- Help! Akismet is catching a regular comment as spam!
Don’t worry, if you see a regular comment on your Akismet page, just click the “Not Spam” checkbox and submit and the comment will be sent back to Akismet as a mistake. The system will learn from your submission, though it may take a day or so in some cases. False positives, as they’re called, are extremely rare and we watch them closely.
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My comments are often held for moderation, because Askimet has returned my comment with a Thumbs Down. That means that according to their rules, I’m a spammer. Now, I’d rather not BE a spammer, but I have no idea what the problem is! I wish I knew. Seems clear though that not only won’t they tell me, they won’t tell Book either?
If there’s anyway for me to learn how to avoid being marked as a spammer, I’d like to know!
Either that… or if I’m not a spammer, then Askimet does a FAR WORSE job with false positives than they advertise. I’m in software, so I’m well aware that software claims are often as dubious as those of politicians.
Heh! My prior comment about Askimet, as clean as could be! If was flagged as spam. Heh!
My comments here, once almost always sent to the moderation queue after a certain length, are now posting: somewhat.