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FYI: I'm installing a CAPTCHA thingy to combat comment spam, and in the process, comments are currently not working. If there's anything here on which you'd like to comment, please return in a couple of hours. I hope everything will be working correctly by then. UPDATE: Well, that wasn't as hard as it seemed. Comments seem to be working now. Please let me know if you experience any problems. UPDATED UPDATE: Ok, the CAPTCHA was working fine here, but I had to remove it because it required edits to core MT files, which meant that it screwed up every blog on this MT install. Rather than making time-consuming tweaks to 4-5 templates in every one of the 23 blogs on this server, I decided to skip the CAPTCHA test. If anyone knows of anything similar to sCode that doesn't require hacking core MT files, please share.Posted January 9, 2005 10:23 AM | meta-blogging
This is a test.
Posted by: ambimb at January 9, 2005 10:58 AM
This is also a test.
Posted by: ambimb at January 9, 2005 11:03 AM
Looks like it's working!
Posted by: Dave! at January 9, 2005 02:25 PM
And then it wasn't. I uninstalled the whole CAPTCHA business, as explained in the updated update.
Posted by: ambimb at January 9, 2005 03:26 PM
That's a shame. I forgot about your multiple blog setup when I recommended SCode, since it is an "all or nothing" solution.
Can one wrap the code in Comments.pm with an if-statement? For instance, a quick IF statement to see if there's an image on the page with a certain name? (It would mean assigning a name to the image on all comments templates, but that's a small shift.)
It's an obvious solution, and would improve the SCode, but as you know the Note deadline's tomorrow, so I'm useless to help in the short term. If you don't have a solution by week's end, though, tell me and I'll look into it.
Posted by: A. Rickey at January 9, 2005 05:04 PM
I host multiple blogs with my configuration as well, and SCode works just fine...
...it just is enabled across all of the blogs you host with that instance of MT. Is that not an option? Or is there a reason you don't want to enable it for the other blogs as well?
Posted by: Dave! at January 9, 2005 05:20 PM
Dave:
I imagine the problem would be changing four templates in 23 blogs. Even figuring no one has made huge changes to their own templates (bad assumption) and allowing for two minutes to make and test every change (let's assume AI's fast as lightning and has access to everyone's blog, something I don't know for sure), that's probably over three hours of work. I can see balking at that. ;)
Posted by: A. Rickey at January 9, 2005 05:49 PM
Yes... I would balk at that, too... although, it's a *very* simple template change, he could just mail out the four lines of code for the individual blog owners to insert. They may even want it as a feature...
Posted by: Dave! at January 9, 2005 10:25 PM
Thanks for the offer, Anthony. I don't have much more time to be fooling with these things, either, so I may just see how Blacklist and the new MT-DSBL thing work on the spam.
Dave!: You're right, I could just modify all the blogs, but the real reasons I decided to back out of the sCode thing were:
1) I don't want to have to remember to make the change for every new blog I create in the future. I know I'll forget.
2) I don't want to have to rehack core MT files every time I upgrade the MT software.
If it turns out sCode is really the best solution for comment spam, I'll do it, but I'll see how the other changes work for now.
Posted by: ambimb at January 9, 2005 10:37 PM
