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tyler

Comment Management Updated

Sat Dec 8th 11:29:56 2007

So some of the work I did yesterday ended up being throw away code. That's okay though because I had goals and I learned a bit more about how ReL has this thing setup and PHP as well.

If you login and check out blog management and moderate the comments on one of your posts you'll see that no longer are you presented with delete links per comment. You get a check box. There is a master toggle... to turn on/off all checkboxes for comments. This makes it easy to clean out spam.. until I figure a way to get some of the comment spam filters installed.

So the mass delete all comments has gone out the door and the new system is in place. It worked well... the one day it was installed... hehehe.

Also, when you delete comments you return to the delete comments page. You used to go back to blog management.

I really dig what I ended up with.

Still a few things eating at me though...

The dead add comment link that appears after you've added a comment. Nuke the link altogether?

UPDATE~~Alter comments and add a spot for IP address collection... so spammers can be blocked once they've used an address (block?). This could be more bandage talk.~~ It's in there just waiting to be populated!

I'd like to put IDs and classes on all elements in the entry template to allow for full customization. A better idea might be to allow folks to build their own template given a few vars and go hog wild. Include in other sites? Dare to dream I suppose.

Anyway, you all know it could be years before I get a Blogotomy coding bug again, so ask now or hold your peace until next time.

ReLik	Sat Dec 8th 14:56:40 2007 © Copyright Blogotomy.com 2003-2006 <------ top priority.
tyler	Sat Dec 8th 16:08:58 2007 Hahaha... you bastard.
Crisp	Sweet Sun Dec 9th 13:59:19 2007 ^haha... Tyler, could you delete all comments for entry 1921 please? It's got about 40,000 spam comments, and it's causing some major load issues on my blog. The management system can't handle it either, they'll have to be nuked at the source. Nice updates to the code, the older/newer thing at the bottom of each blog has been a long time coming. Probably the best feature (apart from the year change...) I think that since the latest version of the comment captcha, the spam has stopped. At least all seems clear spam wise since about the time it was implemented.
tyler	Mon Dec 10th 09:45:53 2007 I'm pretty sure it is still susceptible... see entry 2239 for a blog that is constantly bombarded.
tyler	Mon Dec 10th 10:00:35 2007 btw... comments deleted see my comment on 1921
Crisp	Ah yes Mon Dec 10th 23:47:14 2007 You're right, it seems that only certain blogs are bombarded, hence 40,000+ on that previous entry, which has since been attacked again. What's the answer for this? A better CAPTCHA? Go back to registered users only commenting? Also, "(Query took 18.8606 sec)" haha! Cheers for that.
tyler	Tue Dec 11th 01:43:45 2007 I think it might be time to allow users to select whether they want anon, auth'd or no comments per entry... and set default for that matter.
Crisp	Thu Dec 13th 18:28:00 2007 Auth would be a good default, also changing past entries that get bombed from anon to auth would act like a hacked up off switch for the spam.
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tyler

Comment Management Updated

Sat Dec 8th 11:29:56 2007

Sweet

Ah yes