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Or: More boring meta-posts about comment spam.
Even though the latest measures are stopping comment spam from getting through to publised posts, I still need to clean up 20-40 every day, which kills me.
So in the next phase of the war against comment spam, I've hacked MT to require people to preview comments once before submitting them. I hope this raises the barrier for both manual and scripted comment spammers enough to not make it worth their while. It's not a real solution, more a club-lock equivalent, but hey, it's better than nothing.
Let's see how long it takes for the bastards to work around this.
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Amen!
If I have to delete one more texas hold'em message I will scream! :)
Teri
http://treefreepublishing.com/blog/ ePuBlog the epublishing blog.
Posted by: Teri Mramer on December 2, 2004 10:24 AM
Yeah, tell me about it.
Preview-once is working pretty well, however. Two days on and not a single comment spam! Woo woo!
Posted by: Mike on December 2, 2004 11:14 AM
Dude,
Its good to see that your drinking Dark ale rather than Pale ale, most informed coopers connoisseurs know that pale ale is the dog piss that only yuppies drink. :)
Posted by: shaun on December 3, 2004 07:11 PM
shaun. I don't know you, and perhaps that's just as well.
Pale Ale is a perfectly acceptable drink, having all the many qualities one expects from a really classy ale.
Dark Ale, despite my drinking it for many years, still hasn't found its way regularly into the lineup, and with good reason.
Firstly, it just doesn't taste that good. It doesn't have the complexity (and, let's face it, lifelong familiarity) of pale, and it's a bit gutless for those times when you really want to be drinking Stout.
The only time I've ever thought seriously about sending a drink back was when some dickhead in the Griffin's Head gave me a dark ale when I ordered a black and tan. As if you're not going to notice that your delicious frothy, bitter combination has come back sour and watery instead.
Short form: Don't go pretending to be macho because you drink Dark over Pale. Pale is good. Stout is macho and good. Dark is neither, really.
Sorry mikey I know this probably means friendship over, but it's true.
Posted by: Joel on December 5, 2004 11:11 PM
Guys, guys, guys. Why can't we all just get along?
Joel: Given you've drunk a lot of Dark over the years, where's the beef?
Shaun: Given you're drinking Dark at the Lion, who's the real yuppy in this situation?
Now, lets all have a {Stout|Dark|Pale} and get drunk, which is always the point in the end, no?
PS: I'd be drinking Stout if it wasn't for reasons of cost, limited distribution and lets-not-get-a-spare-tire-too-fast.
Ohmigod, does that mean Dark is Diet-Stout?! Nooooo000!
Posted by: Mike on December 6, 2004 11:42 AM
Yes. That's exactly it :)
"Diet Stout". I'm going to use that.
(And there isn't a beef really, Dark is fine as far as it goes. As you so rightly point out, you've seen me drink many litres of the stuff. I just take exception to people slamming Pale, is all.)
Posted by: Joel on December 6, 2004 09:13 PM
I stand by my original comment.
Pale is dog piss pretending to be beer.
Also, I only drink at the lion because its right next door dammit
and the Griffins Head is full of yuppy clown punchers like Joel. :)
Posted by: shaun on December 8, 2004 04:14 PM
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