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December 31, 2004

Worse than Spam

The crap-flooding got so bad today that in the end I was forced to reboot the machine so that I could regain control of it and install my new filter. That at least seems to have been successful.

I have installed a new plugin, Close Comments, as recommended by Paul. It's pretty easy to use, for example, if you include

<MTCloseComments old="21">
at the top of your main index template, it will automatically close any comments over 21 days old every time you rebuild.

This is only for MT 2.6 users; for people on MT 3, MT Blacklist performs a similar function automatically.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:11 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at December 31, 2004 06:10 AM

2 Yeah, but don't tell people or they'll all want one.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 31, 2004 07:12 AM

3 Holy shit Pixy!

That must be some kinda flood control.

Would it still be possible for people to request that you use MTClose-2 on their blogs for them too? Only because it'd be easier for the template-averse to have implemented fairly quickly.

If you want to establish a SpamControl blog, I can work on getting the basics in place over the weekend for you to have a look at & make suggestions.

Oh, and Happy New Year down the dateline to ya too!

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at December 31, 2004 07:14 AM

4 Yep, I'll create a SpamControl blog tomorrow.

You can see MT Craplist in action in the activity log - looks like it saved Michael King (Ramblings' Journal) from some very tiresome cleanup.

Yay!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 31, 2004 07:27 AM

5 Yay!

Posted by: Susie @ at December 31, 2004 02:19 PM

6 I pasted in between the [head] tags, hopin' that is the right location.

Posted by: Tig @ at December 31, 2004 04:10 PM

7 Pixy...Where exactly should the script go?

Posted by: Gir @ at December 31, 2004 06:15 PM

8 Thanks, Pixy, although I was a day late and a dollar short in posting the comment closer. The closer has been installed and is working beautifully.

Thanks again.

Posted by: Howard @ at December 31, 2004 09:15 PM

9 The very first line of your main index template is best.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 01, 2005 12:56 AM

10 So here's my question - If this closes the comments every time we rebuild the front page, then what impact will this have on those of us that have Recent Comments on the front page? As I understand it, the front page gets rebuilt every time someone comments. So won't this remarkably slowdown the time it takes someone to leave a comment? I'm curious because I want to use it, but I don't want to have slower commenting time... (yeah, like I get sooooo many comments)

Posted by: Daniel @ at January 03, 2005 09:02 PM

11 Apparently not.

But you could also create a new template, put it in there, and only rebuild that template manually.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 03, 2005 09:33 PM

12 Apparently not.

But you could also create a new template, put it in there, and only rebuild that template manually

Posted by: Bary @ at March 08, 2005 09:42 PM

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