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For future reference, making the comment clearly refer to the post will make it much more likely to get approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog tends to get much more spam than legitimate comments. Some of it is easy to spot (prescription drugs, porn, etc). Other comments are a little more ambiguous. 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