I’ve been having intermittent problems with comments not showing up on my “recent comments” widget, and I thought that it was some sort of problem with the hand off between JS-Kit comment system and blogger.

It turns out that it wasn’t.

Blogger introduced an anti-spam system for their comments, basically diverts some comments to the spam folder.

Unfortunately, the filters catch about ½ of the comments, they seem to favor shorter comments.

In any case, I’ve added a tab to my Firefox start with the spam box, so any comment you make should show up in 24 hours, 48 on weekends.

I’m sure that I’ll appreciate the spam filtering once I get enough readers to attract spammers, but right now it’s a pain.