Content Management: April 2007 Archives
The guys behind skype have just made Joost available for download.
Be warned, you will need Windows XP to enjoy the experience.
Plenty of junk comments but no spam is making it to the main comments. It appears that Jay Allen's Comment Challenge plugin and a setting of +1 on the threshold level seems to be working.
Having spent the past few days fine tuning comment spam plugins and filters on movable type 3.2 I would recommend that the content manager takes a bit of time to look at the messages that are being treated as junk and how they are scored.
If Comment challenge is employed (see previous entry)
Spam typically comes in with a score of -1 while legitimate comments have a score of +1.2 an above. (The catchpa challenge adds a +2 to the entry if it is typed in correctly).
Movable type allows the content manager to set the feedback threshold level to determine what to do with comments. By setting it to +1 spam for the most part will be junked and legitimate comments will be published.
Irishsilicon.com is now using the comment challenge plugin developed by Jay Allen.
The plugin does the two following basic things:
1 Denies (or scores as Junk) spam directly injected into Movable Type's comment script
2Provides blog owners with the ability to present an accessible (i.e. non-visual, text-based) challenge CAPTCHA to unauthenticated commenters
My authentication requirements were too draconian and did not prompt the user that this was in effect. This new system is easy to follow and once again allows comments with out the spam injection (I hope)
