Why is comment moderation blocking all my comments? There are no links in them.

[whiteonlySEO]

For the past few days, every time I try posting a comment, no matter how long or short, how informative or simple, I've been getting the error message that the comment isn't being allowed. I only tried a few times, once on several different posts (not spamming, God forbid!), and I never include links in my comments... So what's wrong?!

So frustrated, I am so not up to this right now. Why can't I share my insights and questions on Moz anymore? Gaaaaaaa!

[DmitriiK]

Howdy.

It happened to me once. It's a bug within the system. What you need to do is to send an email to help@moz.com with link profile and description of a problem. They'll fix it or at least will give you explanation

[FeliciaCrawford]

Hi there, SEOhanna, thanks for bringing this up! I'm so sorry you've mistakenly gotten caught up in moderation, that's really frustrating. We've been working to lessen the amount of comment spam on the blog, and added a few new filters to the moderation system. While most of the time those filters have been doing a great job of catching spammy comments (I've deleted about 10 posts inviting me to join the Illuminati in the last day alone!), we've noticed that a few spammy comments still slip through, and a few awesome comments get caught in the net. Because I'm the point person to manually go through and approve or deny comments, I can attest to the fact that your insights are just the kind I love to see on the Moz blog! I'll see if we can't find a way to lower the defenses a bit while still keeping the spam away, and in the meantime, please reach out if you run into anything else that's frustrating -- we're here to help!