Any comments that get past the spam filter but are from a VPN or other anonymizing network (Apple Private Relay, Cloudflare Egress included) get put in Pending to make sure they are not abusive.

We’ve got a plugin that has IP ranges for the big operators.

What isps are so well known to you as spammers that their comments are automatically held for review?

Most people never even heard of him. Instead of inviting someone like him they should someone who is conservative but appeals to moderates because republicans are losing because the Supreme Court overturning Roe. As a democrat my party needs competition. Not yes men that appeal to the base.

Geez DW, it”s lunacy to throw the baby out with the bathwater. That is akin to what the MAGA’s are doing to this country, tearing down and destroying our government and its institutions, subverting law and order to change this country from a democracy to autocracy where freedoms will cease to exist as we for the most part have come to enjoy and appreciate today. You want free speech? You want voter rights? You want to prevent governmental interference in patient/doctor decisions? Do you want so-called Christian zealots deciding who you can love and control your reproductive decisions? Do you want to go back to the days when women were viewed and treated as property? To you want to go back to the days of Jim Crow era? Then vote to save our nation from destruction ….. do not vote any Republican into office on any level who does not publicly denounce the real MAGA agenda. A quiet Republican who doesn’t denounce what their political party has been promoting and practicing enables the furtherance of these seditious treasonous attacks against the United States of America is just as bad. Where are the elected Governors, Senators and Representatives who pledge to work toward actual governance for the good and betterment of the entire country as well as for the people of their States and districts instead of political power grabs for their political parties and for the lobbyists who pay for their alliegence and votes.

My bad. I didn’t see my post 24 hours after I commented, so I thought what did I say, that warranted review?

“DW,” you’ve been commenting here for ages!

Your comment was held because we filter any comments from certain ISPs from immediately showing up, due to spam and abuse.

Someone has to go in and manually say “this is not spam.”