The original post (below) was made on March 8. Here it is May 2 and we are all dealing with the same issues!!! Typepad is being no help at all!!! I am sorry if any of you are inconvenienced.
We interupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this public service announcement:
Typepad (the platform that runs this blog) is changing over to a new spam provider and it's messing everything up -- good comments are getting eaten and spam comments are getting posted.
I am handling the latter myself, but I can't do much on the former. I have submitted a ticket to see what they can do, but based on past experience I probably won't get much help.
For now, all I can suggest is that we wait it out. If you are having a problem commenting, give it a week or so. If you try and comment then and can't, shoot me a note and I'll figure out a way to get you on.
Sorry for the problem...
As Old Limey commented a few days ago I have also noticed that long comments are much more likely to get eaten. Splitting them up often gets them through.
If it's a short comment you probably used a magical word that told the computer you were an evil person. Try to only use words from Dick and Jane. :)
Posted by: Apex | May 02, 2013 at 03:30 PM
I have closed comments on every post that's over 2 weeks old. Hopefully that will kill off the spammers.
Posted by: FMF | May 02, 2013 at 04:57 PM