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Comments are now completely open on Midas Oracle.

Written by Chris F. Masse on February 23, 2008 — 5 Comments
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I have been fighting comment spammers for weeks, and I think I’ve finally found the right combo:

  1. I don’t use “Askimet” anymore (it constantly sent my own comments in the spam area!!!);
  2. I use “Bad Behavior” (it protects this blog from naughty spambots);
  3. I use “Peter’s Math Anti-Spam Image” (it makes sure the commenter is a human being and not a spambot);
  4. I use “WP AJAX Edit Comments” (it allows commenters to edit their comments, post publication);
  5. I use “Subscribe To Comments” (it allows commenters to receive e-mail notifications of new comments to a post);
  6. I use “NoFollow Free” (it allows the commenters’ links to be computed by the Google PageRank system);
  7. I use “TinyMCEComments” (it puts a visual editor in the comment area);
  8. I use “WordPress Gravatars” (it shows off the face pictures of our blog users).

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5 Comments to “Comments are now completely open on Midas Oracle.”

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  1. Chris. F. Masse's Gravatar Chris. F. MasseNo Gravatar
    February 24, 2008 at 2:51 AM | Permalink

    Works fantastically. I have not received a single piece of spam the last night!!!!
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    Bye-bye, spammers.

  2. Chris. F. Masse's Gravatar Chris. F. MasseNo Gravatar
    February 24, 2008 at 1:43 PM | Permalink

    One word about the Gravatars. It seems there are 2 options.
    1. One is when the face picture appears on the website and in the feed, in posts (at the top left). But then the face pictures don’t appear in comments.
    2. The face pictures appear at the bottom of the posts, on the Web (not in the feed). And the face pictures appear in the comments, too.
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    I’ll see what is best. I’ve experienced both options, so far. I should make a decision on what is best for the readers.

  3. Chris F. Masse's Gravatar Chris F. MasseNo Gravatar
    February 26, 2008 at 4:04 AM | Permalink

    There’s a bug in the Gravatar plugin. The parameters I selected do not apply as I want. Sorry for that.
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    1. Commenters’ gravatars don’t show up anymore.
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    2. Gravatars appear in pages (a “page” is static, as opposed to a blog “post”) —even though I asked for them not to appear there.
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    I hate when a machine doesn’t do what I tell it to do.

  4. Chris F. Masse's Gravatar Chris F. MasseNo Gravatar
    March 1, 2008 at 8:59 AM | Permalink

    The bug with the gravatars that don’t appear in comment has been identified. It’s the Google Analytics plugin that messes with that. The techie has been alerted about that. Developing…

  5. Chris F. Masse's Gravatar Chris F. MasseNo Gravatar
    March 4, 2008 at 2:09 AM | Permalink

    The bug has been fixed by the developer of the Google Analytics plugin ("Google Analyticator"), and now all the Gravatars (i.e., face pictures) do appear again in the comments.

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