I agree. There’s a way to close the comments sections automatically on old entries, but for some reason, I haven’t been able to get it to work. Maybe you can.
I know how to do it for individual entries (and have, like the Tony Snow and Sultan of Brunei posts)–but I am unware of any universal way of so doing. Of course, I haven’t looked either.
Beltway Traffic Jam
Still telecommuting, although I did make a sojourn into the office today. The Tuesday linkage: David Pinto blogs Opening Day. Armed Liberal thinks electronic voting…
The ‘close comments’ automatic programs around only work if you have a mySQL database. If you are on Berkeley database, you are out of luck and have to close them by hand.
One thing that seems to help some is changing the name of them mt-comments.cgi to something else (there’s a place in mt.cfg you have to uncomment). Just make sure, if you do that, that your templates all use “<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>”, rather than “<$MTCGIPath$>mt-comments.cgi”. And make sure you rebuild everything.
I have found most of my comment spam comes from posts that I have trackbacked to other sites (i.e. the Beltway Traffic Jam) or posts that someone else has references on thir site. So, since this post is trackbacked, I suspect that you will be getting comment spam in the comments on a post about how much you hate comment spam. Heh.
Comment by mark — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 6:06 pm
Obi
I am Mr. Frank Obi from Sierra Leone. My country in very deep problems now. i need to get money out of an account in bank into your account in USofA. I have approxamitely $43 million US dollars. I need this to send to you so that it not fall into the wrong hands here in Sierra Leone. I am willing to offer you a percent, but first another matter. i need to send over my drop-dead gorgeous daughter to you first. She is 22 year old, 5′10″, brown eyes, hair and skin, she is most attractive and avaiable, and I trust you will take care of her with no nonsense. Now, as to the percent I am willing to offer you. I am willing to offer you 0.0000001%. That will leave you with approxamitely $4.30 US dollars. I hope this meet your criteria. Please my brother is this matter take care and taake deep consideration of this matter. I will need all your particulars: name, date of birth, bank numbers, social securty numbers, driver’s license number, copy of passport, wallet sized picture, and a $15 US dollar processing fee, made out in the form of a check to a one Frank Obi. Thank you for your kindness and may happiness and this new found prosperity shne on you.
I don’t have MT Blacklist (yet), and I get pleny of comment spam. I share your pain.
Comment by mark — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 11:07 am
I have it and it works, but I still get tons of it.
Comment by Steven — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 11:15 am
I agree. There’s a way to close the comments sections automatically on old entries, but for some reason, I haven’t been able to get it to work. Maybe you can.
Comment by Robert Tagorda — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 11:17 am
I know how to do it for individual entries (and have, like the Tony Snow and Sultan of Brunei posts)–but I am unware of any universal way of so doing. Of course, I haven’t looked either.
Comment by Steven — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 11:21 am
Thus begs the question:
which is better? To have a blog that has few (if any) comments,
or to have a blog that gets spammed?
(15 years ago you could have substituted ‘answering machine’ for ‘blog’)
Comment by Charlie on the PA Turnpike — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 12:57 pm
Beltway Traffic Jam
Still telecommuting, although I did make a sojourn into the office today. The Tuesday linkage: David Pinto blogs Opening Day. Armed Liberal thinks electronic voting…
Trackback by Outside the Beltway — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 3:42 pm
The ‘close comments’ automatic programs around only work if you have a mySQL database. If you are on Berkeley database, you are out of luck and have to close them by hand.
One thing that seems to help some is changing the name of them mt-comments.cgi to something else (there’s a place in mt.cfg you have to uncomment). Just make sure, if you do that, that your templates all use “<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>”, rather than “<$MTCGIPath$>mt-comments.cgi”. And make sure you rebuild everything.
Comment by Kathy K — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 4:52 pm
I have found most of my comment spam comes from posts that I have trackbacked to other sites (i.e. the Beltway Traffic Jam) or posts that someone else has references on thir site. So, since this post is trackbacked, I suspect that you will be getting comment spam in the comments on a post about how much you hate comment spam. Heh.
Comment by mark — Tuesday, March 30, 2024 @ 6:06 pm
Obi
I am Mr. Frank Obi from Sierra Leone. My country in very deep problems now. i need to get money out of an account in bank into your account in USofA. I have approxamitely $43 million US dollars. I need this to send to you so that it not fall into the wrong hands here in Sierra Leone. I am willing to offer you a percent, but first another matter. i need to send over my drop-dead gorgeous daughter to you first. She is 22 year old, 5′10″, brown eyes, hair and skin, she is most attractive and avaiable, and I trust you will take care of her with no nonsense. Now, as to the percent I am willing to offer you. I am willing to offer you 0.0000001%. That will leave you with approxamitely $4.30 US dollars. I hope this meet your criteria. Please my brother is this matter take care and taake deep consideration of this matter. I will need all your particulars: name, date of birth, bank numbers, social securty numbers, driver’s license number, copy of passport, wallet sized picture, and a $15 US dollar processing fee, made out in the form of a check to a one Frank Obi. Thank you for your kindness and may happiness and this new found prosperity shne on you.
Your dear Lad from Lagos,
Frank Obi
Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday, March 31, 2024 @ 12:51 am