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July 22, 2004
Where'd All the Comments Go?
It's finally happened. I've reached the point of no longer having the desire to continue the fight. As of this morning, I have disabled comments on this blog indefinately. Typically the level of comments on the blog isn't very high, with one comment for every 10 or 12 posts coming from legit readers. As of recent though I've been receiving 4 comments for every post, mostly from spammers trying to use my site to sell something. I had installed Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist, and it was good for awhile. Recently it's not been heading off the storm quite as well and my patience for spamming has disappeared. So too have the comments.
If you have any future commentary to leave, I suggest either sending an email, where I will add it to the entry itself, or the use of track-backs.
Things I have learned from this though, Movable Type is really awful for making mass changes to an entry. You can do basic alterations, but anything that requires more than changing authors, topics, and names you're pretty screwed. Thank you for a PostgreSQL interface for doing this. If I have the time to hack it, I might just write up a cron job to open up comments again and close those that are N days old. That requires incentive though, and I've none of that today.
Posted by Dan at July 22, 2004 11:57 AM