I’m grateful for the feedback about comments. It appears that many of you (and not just Will Nehs) have had comments disappear. I had no idea. I assure you that I have rejected only a handful of comments (not counting spam). The ones I rejected were abusive (almost always by someone too cowardly to use a name). How many of you had links in your comment? I had it set to reject comments with three or more links. This is because spam usually has lots of links. I just changed “3” to “5,” which means that comments with up to four links will now go through. I also noticed that comments go through only if the name and e-mail fields are filled in. Was that the problem for any of you? It’s also possible that some of you used a forbidden string of characters. I try to type strings that nobody but a spammer would use, such as “cowlarva.” But it’s possible that there are forbidden strings that appear in some of your posts. I’ll go back over my list and delete strings that might be used by regular readers.

Addendum: I just deleted “sucking,” “pepsi,” and “molecular” from my list. If you used any of those words, your comment would have been rejected. I think you know why “sucking” was on my list.

Addendum 2: Here’s another thing. I’ve noticed that there are times (up to several hours) when no comments come in for approval. This is odd, because I usually get a steady stream of comments. Maybe these are times when your comments disappear into the void. If so, then I don’t know what to do about it. I have no idea why it happens. It must have to do with my hosting company (BlueHost) or my blog company (WordPress). You might want to save a copy of your comment, in case it disappears—especially if it’s long and can’t be rewritten quickly. I know this is extra work for you, but hey, we’re dealing with squirrelly software!