I know, right now, most Malaysian sit in front of TV, watching the election’s result announcement, so do I. What do you think? Does your favorite MP win? While Malaysian election process has reaching it’s final stage, American election still has a long way to go.

In the US, internet is fully utilize to obtain support, distributing the agenda until collecting the donation. But the situation is slightly different in Malaysia. As far as I remember, I don’t see any Google Adsense advertisement related to political on the net, be it from ruling parties or opposition parties. Perhaps, this is due to our democracy process which is different from theirs. Furthermore the internet penetration rate in Malaysia still low compared to developing countries or even Singapore, our neighboring country.

Few days ago when I’m reading TheStar online, I found 1 Adsense advertisement about Hillary Clinton’s political campaign appear on local political news. I’ve screen shot is few days ago, but only now I have time to get it posted until today. The ads is about pledging for donation, to finance her campaign to be Republican’s presidential candidate. I click the ads which land me to her donation web page, but no donation from me however The contextual engine works well, matching the news with the advertisement. Perhaps local politician can used Adsense in the next election

The news

The ads

Landing pages.

I’ve no idea what’s wrong. Akismet keeps on eating comments from legitimate commentators. I thought it was due to my outdated Akismet, hence I have upgraded it to the most recent one, version 2.14. I thought my problem has been solved, I can leave my spam comments folder to grow bigger, before deleting them in 1 shot. I thought I can ignore my spam folder. But I was wrong. Dang wrong.

Not only the issue hasn’t been resolved, but it’s getting even worst. Not worst until all comments go to the spam folder la, but another blogger has become a new ‘member’ and ‘loyalist’ to this folder. This does not make any sense. WHY??

I keep de-spamming their comments, but it turns out that the next comment is still appearing over there.

This happens only on blogjer. Comments on other blog is OK.

Why is this happening? Is Akismet a slow learner?? I don’t know either.

I know, I’m just a small tiny blogger, so I guess nobody will care about this, right?

What’s next?? I turn off Akismet temporarily. Perhaps it needs some rest after working almost 8 months non stop (almost). I’ll let SK2 guards my blog from the evil spammers out there who’re waiting for every single chance to sell their Viagra, apertimene , ebooks and etc (all useless stuff) on blogjer.

I’d rather de-spam the legitimate comments everyday, rather than seeing my visitor fleeing away when their comments did not appear on the post. Sometimes there are mysteries on blogging as well.

This is the deal. If your comment does not appear on the post, please shoot me an email at [zakifahmi at gmail dot com] or utilize my contact form. I’ll moderate first comment though, but subsequent comments should pass through.

Happy commenting!!!