Blacklisted and Tweaked

The word is out, and MT-Blacklist is a good thing. A plugin that blocks comment spam. Which, if you've been here a while, you know I have to deal with a LOT!

The one problem (at the beta stage anyhow) is that when MT-Blacklist sends comment notifications, it will "undo" my "More Meaningful Comment Notifications" tweak. Thankfully, Shawn has figured out a workaround.

I will take a look at what mods she made and maybe post a "how to." In the meantime, I emailed this situation as a possible bug to JayAllen.org so maybe it won't be an issue in the next release.

Great work Shawn!

Considering the multiple duplicate comments I've received since adding MT-Blacklist, I wonder if it is slowing down the add a comment function of MT. I have over 8,000 comments, so if it has to traverse them each time a comment is left, this could be the reason. I am looking at this post at Wizbang on how to speed up the plugin on rebuilds. It may be just what I need.

I've also found information on tweaking the behavior of MT-Blacklist at This Chic.

Other Comment Notification Hacks:
Edit This Comment/Ban That IP link based on the Edit This Comment link mod
Stop getting notifications when you comment on your own blog
Rebuilding an individual archive when pinged
Avoiding duplicate comments being posted to your blog - updated for MT-Blacklist

MT mods that I found while researching this article:
Changing the posting comments script to fool spam-bots
Selective Template rebuilding
Integrating Trackbacks into the whole blog
Kalsey's MT tips and tricks
Adding a "Rebuild" button to the Edit Template page so you can rebuild the entry without changing its modified_on date
Add link for users to e-Mail an entry or excerpt to a friend instead of just a link

file this under Blog Tweaks
Posted by on October 16, 2003 @ October 16, 2003 11:05 AM