September 25, 2005

WTF with the comment filter?

I tried to post a comment on my own blog this AM and I got the following nastygram: "Comment could not be posted because of questionable content:a"

Ok, I'm paraphrasing the response, but since when is the letter A offensive? This isn't Nathaniel Hawthorne's Puritan New England and I'm not Hester Prynne.....

Also, there weren't any single "a"'s in the comment. I didn't use it as an article.

Posted by caltechgirl at September 25, 2005 07:20 PM | TrackBack
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#1

I had that problem, too. I found it and fixed it.

Posted by Ogre at September 25, 2005 08:46 PM
#2

If someone blacklists "a", any instance of the letter "a" will cause your comment to be blocked.

Try not to blaclist the letter "a", people!

Posted by Pixy Misa at September 25, 2005 11:54 PM
#3

I've hacked the blacklist routine so that it won't accept anything less than six letters long, which should avoid most accidents.

P.S. I really, really hate Perl.

Posted by Pixy Misa at September 26, 2005 12:36 PM
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