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Monday, January 25, 2010

Cleaning up this site's act

9:28 PM / Web / No Comments

In an attempt to cut down on the spam that's been accumulating on this site recently, I've installed the Blog Janitor plugin for Movable Type and set it to disable commenting on all entries over 30 days old.

It's rather irritating to have to do this, but it should hopefully cut down on the amount of maintenance I'm currently having to do (most of the spam comments end up being posted in entries that were written several weeks ago), and in any event it's fairly rare for anyone to want to reply to anything older than that. If you want to comment on something from an older entry, you'd probably be as well leaving it on a more recent entry and linking back to the post you're referring to.

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To combat spam, commenting is automatically disabled on entries older than 30 days.

Did a comment you tried to post accidentally get eaten by the spam filter? It happens from time to time. I get upwards of 200 spam comments every day and unfortunatley don't have the time to weed through all of them in case something genuine ended up there by mistake. If one of your posts gets incorrectly flagged as spam, email me at whiggles[at]ntlworld[dot]com and I'll do my best to retrieve it.