
If you comment on blogs, you're generally familiar with comment moderation. Chances are you've left a comment on at least one blog that did not appear immediately. In fact, it may have taken a day or two to appear. This is what comment moderation looks like from your end. Some bloggers have comment moderation turned on all the time; others do not use it at all.
From my time using the Intense Debate comment system on multiple blogs, I can say with some confidence that if you left a comment on Atheist Revolution that went to moderation (i.e., did not appear immediately), one of three things is happening:
- You've encountered a random Intense Debate glitch, an unfortunately common occurrence.
- Your comment contained more than 3 URLs or certain keywords that cause Intense Debate to think your comment was spam.
- You have been manually added to my selective moderation queue based on violations of the comment policy. This is extremely rare. In fact, it has been several months since I used this.
Since #3 is the only one I have control over and it is almost never the problem, all I can do if your comment gets kicked into moderation is ask you to be patient. It probably wasn't anything you did wrong, and it probably isn't anything I am doing. I make it a point to check the moderation queue at least once/day. Leaving a flood of subsequent comments in which you call me names and accuse me of censorship because your comment did not appear immediately just makes you look like a tool.