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September 28, 2004
MovableType 3.0 and Comment Delays
. 2Well, we finally upgraded to MovableType 3.x. Its a nice upgrade now that they have their licensing figured out. As an aside, these guys are doing a great job of starting in stealth mode in this strange category called blogging and as it has become mainstream, they are moving to platform with their network of plugins and developer conferences. Heck with blogging as the title story of the NY Times Magazine, you can tell its time has come.
Besides nicer UI, it has better comment management (see below) and also category now can be nested. Something we really need for this site.
Main thing you'll notice that's bad is that comments won't come out immediately.
Although we have a blacklist running, now we have moderated comments so I need to remember to get up there and release comments every so often.
Posted by rich at September 28, 2004 12:18 PM
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It is one huge advantage of hosted services like Typepad, the antispammer list is shared across everyone. Sort of like the way that Cloudmark shares anti-spam information across millions of users.
Since we are self-hosted, I have to keep up with this. There is a spammer clearinghouse, but it doesn't help with ever spam and with the current Blacklist utility there is no way to scan old comments, so this is the best way for now (at least until mt-blacklist) gets better.
Posted by: Rich Tong at October 1, 2004 09:17 PM
At Brand Autopsy we blog using Typepad and they keep a log of "blacklisted" spammers which seems to be very effective in weeding out the spam.
A few months ago we were getting hit hard by spammers (side bar … I really feel for those saps who get turned on by aardvark bestiality) … but I contacted Typepad about the spamming issues and they solved our spamming issues fast.
Posted by: johnmoore (from Brand Autopsy) at September 29, 2004 09:22 AM
Good question. The main thing is we get a gigantic amount of spam on this site. I'm surprised Brand Autopsy doesn't give you are a PR6 site. 170 spams over the last 4 days.
Normally, I just leave it for a while and then use blacklist (a great program by Jay Allen) to get rid of it, but with the new MT3.0 version of Blacklist, there appears to be no way to sweep things up, so we are trying moderation for now.
If you've got a better idea that would be great. Across the ten sites we run, we got lots of spam.
Posted by: Rich Tong at September 29, 2004 12:26 AM
Why the need to moderate comments? Over at Brand Autopsy, we get the occasional spam comment and the irate blogging bully who wants to needle two marketing wonks … but never to the extent that we’ve felt the need to moderate comments. (As a marketer, I’m just curious to understand your rationale.)
Posted by: johnmoore (from Brand Autopsy) at September 28, 2004 01:48 PM
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