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have your comments been vapourised?

Posted: November 17th, 2007 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: admin |

I had “cialis” (a Viagra-like pill) in my banned word list. All comments including this word will be binned automatically. I’ll never, ever get to see them.

Anyone spot a problem here?

Clue: socialist

Not great for a politics blog is it?

Thanks to Skuds. Psssst. Richard, I found a couple of yours that had been deleted, God knows how many others have expired and lost into the ether…

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7 Comments on “have your comments been vapourised?”

  1. 1 Weblog Awards, Web Gerrymandering, and a bloke called Neil Clark (who?) | The Wardman Wire said at 8:18 pm on November 18th, 2007:

    [...] on Liberal Conspiracy, which was a rapid blog roundup. (Tangent: Tyger has a tale of woe about word-banning comments containing “Cialis”. (Clue: socialist, socialism.) Can we install one in Parliament, I wonder Not funny though, [...]

  2. 2 jameshigham said at 8:33 pm on November 18th, 2007:

    Not a bad two words to be lost to the ether though.

  3. 3 tyger said at 8:37 pm on November 18th, 2007:

    You’re a cheeky scamp, Mr. Higham. Now begone, before I release the winged-monkeys on you!

  4. 4 Skuds said at 1:02 am on November 19th, 2007:

    Comments about socialising would have been shredded too! And racialist. If thats a real word.

  5. 5 Dave Cole said at 10:21 am on November 19th, 2007:

    This comment probably won’t get through…

    The MPs for Penistone and Scunthorpe have had problems receiving emails because of spam filters on the Parliamentary network.

  6. 6 Olivier said at 7:36 am on November 20th, 2007:

    Oh MY!! This is great! hahaha

    Well, in France, it’s not the worth word you could ban :D

  7. 7 tyger said at 10:59 am on November 20th, 2007:

    Dave, that’s brilliant.

    Oliver, quite. Bloody commies ;)