We've gotten the upgrade to MT v3.15 now, and I've rebuilt my web pages accordingly. I've also taken some steps to further reduce comment spam, namely renaming the mt-comments script. The change should be transparent and seamless, and maybe this will reduce some spam. Actually, though, the blacklist has been working very well during the past couple of months once I added a broader class of strings to filter (e.g. -porn, -sex, -holdem, free-, etc). I've gone from 99% removal to 99.99%, and this may take it a couple of steps further. We'll see. Once the next version of MT-Blacklist gets out of Beta, that may help, too.
Comments aren't working properly at this point, but we should fix that by sometime tomorrow. It's not related to the anti-spam measures, just something screwy with the preferences form and how it interacts with browsers on a Mac.
Posted by Observer at January 29, 2005 07:23 PMComments on entries can only be made in pop-up windows while those entries are still on the main index page. Sorry for the inconvenience this causes, but this blocks about 99.99% of the spam the blog receives.