I wish WordPress let you automatically delete comments containing more than a fixed number of links–say five. There’s a system for holding in moderation any comment with too many links, but after a certain number of links the chance that a comment isn’t spam drops to approximately zero. I just had to go through and delete 96 comments that my commenting system couldn’t identify as spam on its own, and so got held in moderation. But I had to go through them on the off chance that there was a legit comment in moderation somewhere. Comment moderation needs to be for comments that are hard to sort out at first glance as legit or not. Comments with fifty links don’t fit that category.

On a related note, if you’re a new reader who’s trying to comment but can’t, drop me a message, I’ll see if your comment got marked as spam.