I just got hit by a major wave of comment spam, and it took me while to puzzle out all the tools available in this MT system to purge them. I'm tinkering a little bit with comment settings to try and prevent it from happening again (tip: don't put lots of links in comments, because they will get held up for my approval before posting), and I've clicked a few checkboxes in the settings on. If things get freaky and it doesn't let you comment, send me an email and I'll try to fix it.
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So I've been offline a lot the last few weeks - as you know we had 10 kids in our house for a couple of days the week before Thanksgiving, and I was out of town until yesterday. While a few posts have gone up, I've spent absolutely no time on anything other than absolute necessities online.
So…
A bit of blog housekeeping here...
Normally, I find out about new comments on my blog through e-mail notifications that get sent to me shortly after you, the reader and commenter, post your comments. I find it much easier simply to scroll through the e-mails and see what the reaction is to my posts…
(Now that I look at the title, that sounds like an incredibly tepid harness-team command. "On, Moderation! Forward, with prudent speed!" I could clear that up by adding "Comment" in the middle, but I kind of like the image...)
Over at Boing Boing, Teresa Nielsen Hayden has posted a long explanation…
I'm dying here, people. It's spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spammity, spam, spam, spam. I get up every morning and get to spend a half hour cleaning up the crap that accumulates every night, and have to invest more time at intervals during the day…
I got that same wave. The NYT column didn't say anything about advertising in the comments!
Even using Blogger, I got a wave of comment spam last night and this morning as well. I ended up having a little fun with the spammer by slapping down the altie website that sent it.
I can't comment at all...
I got hit too, although the spam filtering seemed to have caught some of it. I'm hoping I don't have to turn comment moderation on...
I cannot comment from Firefox, but can do it from the hated IE. The same problem I still have on Dr.Free-ride, Grrlscientist and Cognitive Daily.
i was hit too, and was thinking of posting a message on my blog to the spammers, taunting them because the spam-guard here has been doing its job: not a single spam got through! muahahaha!
i also have no problems whatsoever posting using OS 10.4.4 and the minimalistic browser, safari (for the record, my favorite browser is firefox, so don't hate me).
The only difference I noticed is that, as of today, when I click on the comments link the page opens to the input box, rather than the top of the comments thread.
Coturnix: I have no problem posting comments from Firefox. Check your security settings -- do you have Javascript disabled? (The comments box uses Javascript.)
No, javascript is fine. Also, I have no problem with commenting on other 10 or so blogs here. Tara made some kind of switch that made it possible to comment in FF again.
And now I just commented from FF.