Reader Tom Hyland left a couple of comments - which I didn't see - regarding an article he wished to share. He told me he had a message "Waiting moderation" or some such yet there was no notice of anything waiting for approval on the admin site.

Until I dug deeper and found his comments deep in a spam basket.

Now, I'm not sure how or why his comments ended up there - he's on the white list and some of his comments come through - but there they were. Unless the links were bad ... but Abbeville Institute should be OK (and I left the link live)

I moved them to where they belonged and approved them; his thoughts should now be visible in the Comments section of the post "Summer Flowers".

That problem's taken care of. I hope.
Sorry 'bout that Tom ...

What was interesting is the number of comments in the spam bucket that are obviously spam. It's amazing how "readers" from various places around the world use the exact same wordage in their thoughts.

A sample:

Thank you for your sharing. I am worried that I lack creative ideas. It is your article that makes me full of hope. Thank you. But, I have a question, can you help me?

I don’t think the title of your article matches the content lol. Just kidding, mainly because I had some doubts after reading the article.

Your article helped me a lot, is there any more related content? Thanks!Your point of view caught my eye and was very interesting. Thanks. I have a question for you.

Can you be more specific about the content of your article? After reading it, I still have some doubts. Hope you can help me.

The same phrases from multiple origins (or VPN swaps) and authors. Better than gibberish I suppose.

A sample of author's names:

Vytvorit osobní úcet

Dang k’y binance us

Index Home

There were many more similar comments and "author names" than these.

Now - if any of you are real people - I'm looking at you Index Home - let me know and I'll take you off the spam list. Maybe.
But don't use symbols in your name and don't use a bot IP address when you do so.

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