more thoughts about MT:
If I can ban a commenter based on the ip address why can't I have an approved ip address list for known friends? Why isn't there a way to approve more than one comment at a time? There sure is a way to delete more than one comment at a time. How about a daily digest email of today's comments instead of one email for each or none at all. (if your blogging software does this I genuinely would like to know :))
Which is all kind of moot at the moment considering MT Blacklist is forcing moderation on every single comment anyway. Heck even I'm considering migrating to new software at this point and I was happy to pay the damn license fees everyone else was complaining about over the summer.
But on a positive note I tried out this really cool way to skin the MT backend interface. It was very easy to install and is a nice little change. What a nifty idea!
Now, I could use some constructive criticism. Or really just some plain CSS help: Does anyone know why the comment input box in this and this skin don't show until the bottom of the sidebar while it works fine on this and this skin? The only real difference between those two sets of skins is the ones that are screwing up use a container tag. That's all I can tell really.
If you help me fix this I'd reallyreallyreally appreciate it. Seriously. I'll even buy something off your amazon wishlist (if there's something around fifteen dollars on there). This has been bugging me for weeks.
your amazing.
*hugs*
Posted by: vadergrrrl at November 14, 2004 1:53 AM
I wish I knew the answer. However, I do know two people that are extremely well-versed in CSS that might be able to help. Iki at After Hours Pub (www.afterhourspub.com) and Elfchick at Pointy Ears (www.pointyears.com). Just drop a comment into any of their posts and let them know I reccomended them to you.
Posted by: etherian at November 14, 2004 2:26 AM
The comment box may be outside of the container tag that contains the rest of the comment input fields.
Either that or you've assigned a width and position to it that's pushing it below your sidebar,
Posted by: Marie at November 14, 2004 2:55 PM
Regarding blocking or approving IP addresses: Not sure you'd even want to. IP addresses can be spoofed by spammers, so they're not really an effective way to combat them -- and you could wind up blocking out non-spammers.
Moderation's a pain, but it's pretty much the only way to go. One thing I found that really cut down on comment spam was auto-closing the comment box after x numbe of days (21 in my case), since spammers tend to target archives anyway.
Posted by: CT at November 15, 2004 7:26 AM
In order to control comment spam, comments are automatically disabled on entries older than 30 days using Conversation Killer. This entry is over 30 days old so comments are now closed.
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