Airbag has become victim to this stupid comment spam.
Dammit!
Do spammers know they will rot in hell in the afterlife? I'm talking non-stop broiler action for eternity. Stupid, stupid spammers.
There is hope; a small light in the dark mire of senseless damage to a lot of personal creative work.
It's called MT-Blacklist and it's almost as frustrating as the spam itself. Owning your own server helps because the Perl script required for installation is not likely to be found on virtual hosts services.
Thankfully, Airbag resides on a lowly FreeBSD box at my friends hosting business. So when I need something installed it's usually not a problem.
It's mostly working, MT-Blacklist that is. When I try to rid this site of all the comment spam I get an error telling me that I don't have permission to edit messages on this site.
Sometimes I don't know why I even bother. Stupid, stupid installation process.
The good news is that I am about half way through a redesign for Airbag. But I gotta know, should I keep the pop-up comments window or switch to a comments page?
UPDATE: Jay has released version 1.6 of Blacklist and after the 20 second installation it's working as advertised.
Also, spammers can still go to hell. This includes California Senator Tom McClintok who has added me to a direct email campaign for stopping a car tax. All without my permission of course.
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I think Typographi.ca maybe is handling it the best at the moment — I'm trying to reinvent the wheel for the next Killing Goliath but not there yet.
I'd move to a comments *page* beneath the posts. Pop-up comments always feel disperate from the post that I'm commenting on.
I'm more interested to know if you're are embracing the whole CSS madness in it's full glory? Or will there be a few sneaky tables in there?
I vote for a comments page for the reason that Steve gave, and I just never liked popup comment thingies anyway.
Redesign suggestion: mark your comment form fields when they're required. Being prompted to enter my email address after after I hit post is kind of annoying.
Airbag will loose tables altogether in this next round. I've actually finished two web sites that validate XHTML Strict/CSS so I guess it's time this site did the same.
Steve, two things:
1) You are linking to an old version of the plugin. Please change your link http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ as any other link misleads people. Yes, I should solve that problem internally by making sure visitors know that it is an old version or cut requests off at the knees by checking for a referrer to an old version, but I am kind of busy coding recently, you know??
2) Having linked to an old version, it leads me to believe that you just installed an old version. 1.5 is out currently and v1.6 is coming today... You should wait for v1.6...
I installed version 1.5 but it looks like 1.6 will (hopefully) fix the problem.
Not like I do it (I'm a techno-knucklehead), but commenting below the entry on the page is nice.
I don't like any popups... even when they're intended by the site's author. ESPECIALLY when they're intended by the site's author.=)
Just one more time, please, please Greg, use the "Preview" option! For the love of all that is Holy...
Ok, I feel better now.
Bayesian filtering for commnents anyone? Its damn effective on email, it should work on weblogs too surely?
I solved the MT comment spam problem with the tips here:
http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000849.html
Tip #5 stopped all comment spam.
Cheers!
My vote goes for a comments page. I like the way Hivelogic does comments.
I think it only appropriate that you've gotten a spam comment on your spam comments thread. Nice.
*sigh*
Count my vote for comments pages (not popups). Any
chance "convert line breaks" for comments might make it on the ballot too?
Can't wait to see the redesign.
I'm also in the middle of a redesign, debating pop-up comments, hit with comment spam, and trying to install MT Blacklist. Small world.
The public beta of Central had a mixed review today. But people were talking about it everywhere. (see links on Mike's blog).
We can't add new apps yet, and there is no information on how to go about building one. After all the hype and waiting around, this is definitely an anticlimax. Not because it isn't a good product - I'm sure it's wonderful, but because it is us, the developers, who will make it interesting. When all you have to look at cinema listings and weather reports (from another country), its hard to get too excited.
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