Comments on: MovableType advice needed

By: truly plural

truly plural — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:18:33 +0000

And what about kol rina. Why isn’t that loading. Is it also working on movable type; or did Miki feed her site too much mazza on Pesach and now it’s constipated, but looking forward to shavuot to clear its bowels with cheese-cake?

By: truly plural

truly plural — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:12:35 +0000

Is that(MT) the reason why unbrokenglass.com is down?
How come it doesn’t load, YOZ?

By: Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:59:50 +0000

ooo, goody, does MT have the same problem as many WP installations in that the user is not notified when his comment is held for moderation and it looks like nothing happened? definately would reccomend researching a way around that, no matter what platform you use

By: Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:58:22 +0000

Well, in spite of your last bracketed statement, I’ll stick my neck out anyway and say that if MT won’t run your current anti-SPAM against your old comments, WP will. Feel free to ignore that, I’m just so impressed with WP that I felt I had to point it out 😉

By: Blue Suit Nomad

Blue Suit Nomad — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:24:21 +0000

I’m in reverence of you for being able to use Movable Type. Personally, I jumped ship and went to Typepad.

By: Larry Borsato

Larry Borsato — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:23:14 +0000

I manually – one screen at a time – deleted my comments.
Also when I upgraded from 2.x to 3.2 it broke all my permalinks. They were formerly post numbers and changed to all text. I wrote a tool that created mappings to the old links. Let me know if it happens to you and I’ll send you the tool.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:22:36 +0000

Can’t Blacklist run against your current database? I’d consider upgrading the dirty database and running Blacklist against it. Certainly the old crappy version of Blacklist I used to run on MT 2.661 would let me run it against current comments. Might make for a slow export, but the tools in the new versions are a lot better, afaik. There and again, I moved to WordPress, which is not really a solution.

By: Phil Gyford

Phil Gyford — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:21:10 +0000

I hope there’s a better solution, but failing that…
MT 3.2 does let you list all Comments on your weblog on one page (well, split up into pages). So if you don’t have many genuine comments among the spam, it’ll be simple to list, say, 125 comments at a time, click the unobtrusive ‘check all’ checkbox and mark them as Junk.
BTW, the option to list more Comments on that page is even more unobtrusive and is found in the ‘Show display options’ link at the bottom left of the page.
If you just upgrade from 2.x to 3.2 there is some mysterious upgrade process that *might* look for junk comments among the existing comments. But then again it might not. And it doesn’t sound like this would help you either way. Good luck!