"Suspicious comments" and "Spam comments": LJ decision to 'block' spam i

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Originally posted by heeroluva at "Suspicious comments" and "Spam comments": LJ decision to 'block' spam is a big FAIL!
So I've been noticing in both my own journal and communities that I haven't been able to see some comments even thought it says there are more comments there than are actually showing up. Instead I'm getting a place holder that says (Spam

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It's very much a "We must do something! Oh, this is something, so let's do it." measure; not thought through, and much more likely to cause trouble than to help. The only sensible thing to do is turn it off.