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February 15, 2004
Upgraded!
Okay, so I upgraded to MT 2.661...and sorry I deleted your comment Ancarett, but it was a junk post full of testing comments by me, so figured it was easier. :)
It WAS much easier than I thought but in order to enable the comment flood protection I had to go in and do a little bit of hacking, which was annoying. They didn't include the mt.cfg file in the upgrade, so I had to go into the file, and guessed about where to put the configuration for it (the configuration instructions seemed to indicate that it would be in the mt.cfg file but it wasn't). Thankfully, it worked. I've set my settings to take three minutes before you can comment again, which seems to be a sort of random thing. But the problem I've found is that it only works on posts that are posted on the same DAY, not on posts that are posted to one day then immediately to the next day, or simultaneously. So it sort of defeats the purpose.
Most of my old posts are locked now, so that's not a big deal. Until 3.0 comes out I will only keep the last week or so unlocked for comments and will just go lock any that are older than 14 days or so. That way if the comment flooding doesn't stop the crapflooders (reading the support forum seems to indicate that it's buggy and my testing seems to agree), that it will be easier to delete comments.
I think spammers and crap-flooders are the bottom of the scum barrel. It's amazing to me that they actually think that people are going to purchase from them after they piss them off by their unscrupulous marketing. Plus it gives legitimate, respectable marketers like myself a bad name.
Going to keep tweaking...
Posted by crystallyn at February 15, 2004 09:32 PM
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Don't apologize. You inspired me! I just upgraded to 2.661 since I posted that and it went smooth as silk.
Posted by: Ancarett at February 15, 2004 09:55 PM
Well, I just installed Blacklist (http://www.jayallen.org/misc/projects/mt-blacklist/latest/#ridiculouslyeasypath), so we'll see how well that works too...
Posted by: crystal at February 15, 2004 10:46 PM
Weird. Comments don't show up with the right number, I noticed. It showed 4 even after I deleted two test comments.
Posted by: crystal at February 16, 2004 06:18 AM
I agree with you Crystal. Spamming someone is NOT the way to get them to buy products. All it does is piss off people. Too bad the spammers haven't figured that out yet.
Posted by: Legenae at February 16, 2004 11:44 AM