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SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM!

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I've long been aware that this site spams a few comments/replies which are far from obvious to explain why they've been spammed. As a result, I regularly check my spam folder to 'unspam' such comments/replies. I put the arbitrary nature of spamming here down to the site's algorithm. But things have got stranger today. Today, I found four replies in my spam folder, all of them were comments/replies posted sometime ago. But none of them had appeared in my spam folder until today. After 'unspamming' them, I then went back to the blog posts from which they were spammed. I noticed that there were replies to my spammed replies. This suggests that site had spammed them well after they were posted. Strange! Furthermore, three of the four replies were replies I had written. The site is seemingly spamming comments/replies posted by the blogger of the blog post. How can a comment/reply I submit on my blog be regarded as spam? Yet more strange! Do you regularly check fo...

MY FIRST GLITCH

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I've just experienced my first glitch on this site, and I'll remember it as my first kiss though probably not as much as the first time I had sex! Over the last two days, several comments/replies from JN, Smarty and Joy haven't shown up on my blog posts. Despite getting email notifications showing their comments/replies they don't appear on my blog posts. Yesterday I was hoping it was a temporary glitch, but it has happened again today. So I decided to report the glitch to the site. I clicked the circled question mark in the top right hand corner here on the site. Here you can either seek help from or send feedback to the site. There seemed to be two sources of help offered. One was from the site itself by clicking 'visit help forum'. This took me to Blogger's Help Center where there was plenty of advice on how to set up a blog, create a blog post, add images and videos to blog posts, etc. I didn't read any of this advice as it didn't look relevan...