Most high-volume comments sections on various sites such as Guido's blog and (cough) Mail Online operate an automated vetting system which checks comments for offensive or spam content, and falling foul of this inadvertantly or otherwise means a comment disappears never to be seen again, with no warning (*) or explanation of why. Innocuous examples include "via gravity" which contains "viagra", or "therapist" containing "rapist", or the notorious Scunthorpe!
So, although there are doubtless many such systems, I wondered if there was a site where one could test a comment to see if was likely to fail automated moderation on the more common comment systems such as Vuukle and Disqus, before submitting it to the actual site of interest.
(*) It's rumoured that on Guido's blog comments are vetted in real time as they are being typed, and a pixel somewhere on the screen turns purple if the current contents of the comment window will fail. But I don't post there often enough to have noticed that. If true then there might be some trace of this in the Javascript.
So, although there are doubtless many such systems, I wondered if there was a site where one could test a comment to see if was likely to fail automated moderation on the more common comment systems such as Vuukle and Disqus, before submitting it to the actual site of interest.
(*) It's rumoured that on Guido's blog comments are vetted in real time as they are being typed, and a pixel somewhere on the screen turns purple if the current contents of the comment window will fail. But I don't post there often enough to have noticed that. If true then there might be some trace of this in the Javascript.
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