Re: comments enhancements

Will,

have you had problems with comment spam? So far, I've had none, and
attributed it simply to using a different comment system than the big
boys use.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:30:15 -0600 (CST), will guaraldi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a bunch of comments adjustments that I've been sitting on and keep
> meaning to get around to factoring into the version that's in CVS.
> Attached is a diff of my local comments plugin version with the one that's
> in cvs right now.
> 
> It adds the following:
> 
> 1. Users can configure the plugin to force all new comments into a "draft"
> mode where they have to be manually "published".  I have a script that
> looks for all draft comments, prints them to my console, and asks me
> whether I want to publish, delete, or ignore the comment.
> 
> 2. It adds a comment rejection callback allowing people to write their own
> comment rejection plugins.  I have one that rejects all comments that have
> a word in a word blacklist I maintain.
> 
> 3. I changed the way the comments-form and comments-story templates work.
> Instead of stomping on the existing template, it now appends to the story
> template.  This allows other plugins to set the template for the entry
> without the comments plugin stomping on it.
> 
> 4. I also added a $message variable so that users can see what happened to
> their comment: whether it was rejected, whether it was successful, whether
> it's in draft mode, ...
> 
> I use my version on my site as well as the Planet PyBlosxom site.  It
> works pretty well so far.
> 
> The thing it doesn't do is the secret number image thing.  For example, on
> Christopher Baus' site:
> 
>     http://www.baus.net//goodluckkate#comments
> 
> I can't for the life of me remember who coded it up but it's the other
> very solid way of preventing comment spam that I know about.
> 
> /will
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Ted Leung wrote:
> >
> > I've been surfing the pyblosxom blogs tonight -- somehow planet pyblosxom
> > didn't make it into my aggregator -- but that's fixed now.  I've seen a bunch
> > of stuff about various improvements to the comments plugin, and I'm
> > interested in trying to get all the changes integrated in one place.  I have
> > a few local changes of my own.  If people want to post their changes, I'm
> > happy to take a crack at integrating them.
> >
> > Ted
> >
> >
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