Re: Simple Comment Spam Reducing Plugin.

I added this to the contributed plugins repository.

I haven't put the plugin on the site yet, though.  Getting there....

/will


On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Blake Winton wrote:
> 
> Because my server's fan is making a funny noise, I bought a new Mac 
> Mini, which caused me to upgraded my copy of PyBlosxom to 1.3.2, and 
> thus lose most of my changes to the plugins.
>
> Specifically, I added in some code to prevent comments on entries from 
> more than 28 days ago.  Since there is a nice new comment api now, I 
> decided to rewrite my code as a separate plugin, in the hopes that 
> other's of you could use it.  And so I'll add it at the end of this 
> message.  If there are any comments, questions, or suggestions, I'ld be 
> happy to answer them.  I also hereby release the following code into the 
> Public Domain, so if anyone wants to clean it up, and put it in a 
> registry, or something, feel free to.
>
> ------>8 Cut here for noOldComments.py 8<------
> """
> This plugin is designed to prevent comments on entries older than
> 28 days, as a simple measure to stop 90% of the spam I get.
>
> This code is released into the Public Domain
> """
> __author__      = "Blake Winton <[email protected]>"
> __version__     = "1.0 - August 5th, 2006."
> __url__         = "http://example.com/"
> __description__ = "Prevent comments on entries older than a month."
>
> import sys
> import time
>
> def verify_installation(request):
>    return 1
>
>
> def cb_comment_reject(args):
>    req = args["request"]
>    comment = args["comment"]
>    blog_config = req.getConfiguration()
>    data = req.getData()
>    entry = data['entry_list'][0]
>    print >> sys.stderr, entry['mtime']
>    print >> sys.stderr, comment
>    if ( (time.time() - entry['mtime']) >= 2419200):
>        print >> sys.stderr, "Too old!"
>        return 1
>    print >> sys.stderr, "Just right!"
>    return 0
> ------>8 Stop cutting here for noOldComments.py 8<------
>
> Later,
> Blake.

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