Morning Coffee: Comments fixed?

December 26, 2004

Comments fixed?

Oh, it looks like way back on September 5th i had an IP blocked with no number entered, so that effectively turned off the comments. i guess i didn't notice since i had turned them off for quite a while due to spammers. Whoops! And i thought you didn't love me anymore. Let's see if it works now. If anybody is still out there, that is.

Holy crap, i never thought about it, but comment spam is of course a form of googlewhacking. Huh. In other news the comment spam has begun to pour in, but it's nice to hear y'all check in, so i'll just delete it. i changed the text so it doesn't read "c*mments", so let's see whether that helps.
Posted by sciencegrrl at December 26, 2004 01:10 AM

Comments

Well, i can post now. Yay!

Posted by: sciencegrrl at December 26, 2004 10:38 AM

WOW it took 33 min for some comment spam to appear. This does not bode well.

http://www.hellomerry.com/code/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1532

Posted by: sciencegrrl at December 26, 2004 11:14 AM

I can post! Hooray!

Posted by: jenblossom at December 26, 2004 11:27 AM

Can still post!

Posted by: Tyler at December 26, 2004 12:14 PM

If she hasn't already, have Merry change the name of the mt-comments.cgi file to something unique, then edit mt.cfg to point to the new filename. I haven't had any comment spam since I did that. (But make sure you test it to make sure it works, which I didn't do.)

Posted by: Mike Barklage at December 26, 2004 03:41 PM

Thanks, Mike! Merry is away, but as soon as she is back i'll ask her. Sorry i forgot to credit your blog for the googlewhacking link, oops.

Posted by: sciencegrrl at December 26, 2004 07:36 PM

I don't think that was from my blog... but you're welcome anyway.

Posted by: Mike Barklage at December 26, 2004 11:38 PM