Hi Peeps,
So I managed to get onto the nice tech team at the ECA to look into the comments on the GC site and stop the amount of spam bots that attack it. Unfortunately, this has caused a few upsets (lol, soz about that) where legitimate comments seem to be eaten up by the filter.
Please rest assured I've notified the tech guy and he'll look into it. The module they added to the site needs to 'learn' what spam is in order to filter the legit comments from the spam so it might take a wee while to get in order.
Your patience is appreciated :) (always wanted to say that!) :D
Also thanks for the suggestion Zippy but I am not sure how the module works in that sense - the tech team will need to look into that unfortunately. We (the editors) can only add spam posts to it and trust me, we're not adding anyone legitimate to the list (well, as far as I know we're not).
Hopefully, they'll get something sorted soon - sorry for the inconvenience if you've been posting comments on the articles.