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Like Akismet, TypePad AntiSpam takes a multi-headed heuristic approach to detecting and blocking comment spam on blogs.
The Guardian also blocks comments for legal reasons, but this makes up a very small proportion of blocked comments.
It is not always advisable to block comments just because they are negative.
The Guardian's moderators don't block comments simply because they don't agree with them.
In our analysis we took blocked comments as an indicator of abuse and/or disruption.
YouTube allows creators to block comments with specific words and phrases.
Comments are deleted for one of two reasons: they are either replies to blocked comments or they are spam.
Only 2% of comments are blocked (a further 2% are deleted because they are spam or replies to blocked comments); the majority are respectful and many are wonderful.
For the purposes of this research, therefore, we used blocked comments as an indicator of abuse and disruptive behaviour.
Many sites allow readers to flag objectionable comments for removal, and make some effort to block comments from people who have repeatedly violated the site's standards.
(For a while I suspected they also blocked comments that praised my dashing good looks, but that turns out not to be true).
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