next*

Hey everyone, Ernie here - among other duties, I'm one of the good folks who help set up Next*.

This is just a quick post to let you know that we currently have a small bug in our system where if your blog comment has an apostrophe, your comment goes straight into our spam folders. As apostrophes are used commonly - especially in blog comments - we'll get this fixed as soon as we're able to.

Unless you're the commenter writing about home loans and viagra. In which case, we are actively censoring your content. You know who you are. (As a footnote, this might be the first time ever that the word "viagra" has ever been mentioned on a Yahoo! blog, albeit ironically.)

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!

Good News, Everyone!
Looks like I've got the comment bug fixed. I'm not particularly happy about what was happening or the fix that had to be made, but things should be working fine now. As an added bonus, looks like your quote bearing comments weren't lost, they were merely buried behind the shed, so I've recovered them. (Well, most. There were a few spammer comments in there.)

Needless to say, if you still have problems, leave a (obviously quote free) comment and I'll try to fix it without swearing as much as I did this time.

jr conlin
(back-end monkey)

Popularity: 7% [?]