Don’t Mess with Texas

James Joyner · Thursday, December 2, 2004 · 5 Comments

I just had a comment rejected over at Mark the Pundit. The reason was a new one on me:

Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: Texas

Wait until Karl Rove hears about this one.

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James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

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Jason says:

Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 14:57

It’s because that stupid online p0ker comment spam.

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Mark says:

Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 15:02

Yeah, I made the TX poker spam filter much too vague :-)

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Mark the Pundit says:

Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 16:11

Broadly Written Spam Filters
Looks like I was guilty of having written a comment spam filter too broadly! James points out that adding the word Texas in a comment led to it getting rejected. Well, I looked at my filter list and I did…

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KipEsquire says:

Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 16:18

I can beat that — on a different blog today I got:

Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: good

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Boyd says:

Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 22:02

I got that recently when Spoons added MT-Blacklist. Having a link to my site obviously made that a problem for me.

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