I’m Sorry …
To anyone who left a comment here and wondered why I, with my distinct lack of commentors, would not deem it sensible to allow yours though. I am sorry, too, that I am such a dumbass not to realise why the reason that no-one commented was *not* because no-one had commented, but rather that I’d never discovered the ‘Comment Moderation’ area in Wordpress.
232 comments awaiting moderation.
Eeek!
I really should look around Wordpress.
And I really should get around to redesigning this flaming personal site of mine instead of using this off-the-shelf design.
Posted: March 21st, 2006 under Dumbass.
Comments
Comment from Lloydi
Time March 23, 2006 at 4:27 am
Yep, yay indeed. I’m even approving the ones that call me ‘numpty’ and ‘dumbass’. I’m good like that. But if you don’t include the ;-), well, that’d be a different matter, hah!
What a noob I am on this interweb thing
Comment from Craig C.
Time March 21, 2006 at 6:56 pm
I can also recommend Coldforged’s Paged Comment Editing Plugin. Wordpress 1.5+ has a built-in blacklisting feature, which completely blocks very spammy comments (as opposed to merely flagging them for moderation, or “graylisting”). The problem is that blacklisted comments aren’t truly blocked, they still get saved to the database. If you get lots of comment spam they can bloat your database very quickly. You can purge them manually by directly accessing mySQL, but that’s a hazardous and cumbersome endeavor. The plugin allows you to view, delete, or approve blacklisted comments within the normal comment editing panel.
WP2 integrates Kismet (a smart blacklisting API) and since upgrading I haven’t recieved a single spam comment. Of course, I also take various other measures so I’m not sure how much I can attribute to Kismet.