June 22, 2007

Meaningless Technical Note

I noticed a while back that for whatever reason, a lot of my comment spam seems to recur in the same old posts. I've been dutifully deleting and blocking these, but it finally occurred to me that if I would close the comments on these posts that seem to draw spammers like flies to honey it would probably save me a lot of time deleting and blocking. Then I figured that I might as well close comments on any old posts that get spammed. I'd rather not do this, because the comments are a lot better than the posts, and sometimes people stumble upon something that's been hanging out there for a while and would still like to comment, but I am also tired of having to police these things, and closing the door seems to be a good way of cutting down on the amount of flies in the house.

So, basically, if a comment gets spam, and the post is over three months old or so, I'm just going to close it. If you somehow manage to stumble on these old posts and find it closed and would still like to comment, just drop me a note and I'll add it in.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 22, 2007 08:17 AM
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By the way, MUNU has a fancy schmancy thingamabob that will automatically close posts after a certain number of days. I think you can set the desired amount of days.

Posted by: Jordana at June 22, 2007 03:29 PM

Welllll doggies! Where is that located in the menu?

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 22, 2007 03:43 PM

Here it is.

http://munuviana.mu.nu/archives/065613.php

Posted by: Jordana at June 22, 2007 04:05 PM