I hear occasionally from readers who’ve posted to comment boards on Kansas.com and wonder why their comment didn’t show up right away.
All comments to the boards are tested by a word filter, which attempts to weed out profanity, spam and other generally anti-social comments. As those of you who frequent the boards know, that filter is imperfect. Many anti-social comments get through and have to be deleted after the fact. On the flip side, many well-meaning comments are trapped by the filter. Among the innocent things that can be trapped: the word "shot" (an attempt to catch violent comments) and any Internet link (an attempt to catch spam).
Trapped comments aren’t immediately rejected, however. They just queue up and await review by members of the Kansas.com team, who approve or reject them. That can happen within a few minutes or, sometimes, after a couple of hours.
The technology will surely improve in the coming months and years, but in the meantime, we appreciate your patience if your comment doesn’t show up on the boards right away.
– Nick Jungman