Comments are so delicious
Spurred on by the mystery (now solved) of Myssa Rei’s in-comment spoiler tags being eaten, I thought I’d make a consolidated note on recent changes to the blog’s commenting infrastructure.
First, I’ve replaced Spam Karma 2 with Akismet as my anti-spam plugin. So far, the rate of spam getting through (only one in the past two weeks) and false positives (also one over the same time period) have been acceptable.
Second, the Comment Timeout plugin has been deactivated. I had initially used it to reduce the ’surface area’ available for spambots. But it’s a blunt instrument for this task and probably Bad Behaviour would be a better alternative. Some very interesting and informative emails from readers regarding the contents of previous posts made me realize what I was missing out on and my own pingbacks not getting through to old posts were the deciding factors for this change.
The rest of the changes follow the Sea Slugs! lead:
Third, Simple Spoiler Enhanced now only accepts the square brackets: [spoiler] spoiler text here [/spoiler]. Not more pointy brackets!
Fourth, LMB^Box Comment Quicktags appears to be working ok too. No more having to remember if open pointy bracket is ampersand gee tee semi-colon or ampersand elle tee semi-colon! [Add: Quite irritating how the 'more than' or 'less than' signs aka Pointy Brackets keep getting 'reset' whenever the options are saved. Have to key in as '<' for it to show correctly, confusing because it's quite different from the write screen for normal posts.]
Fifth and finally, I thought that the K2 theme and the WP AJAX Edit Comments plugin was like brother and sister love but now I’ve discovered that they’re *not* actually blood related! I just had to turn off the Live Commenting function under K2 Options to untangle their AJAX incompatibilities for the Asakura wedding to go ahead. Doh. I think the trade-off in functionality is more than acceptable; I’ve made so many boo-boos in comments on other blogs so I think this is a great plugin; experiencing its convenience at Epic Win as well, was the decider for me! So far it tests ok but do let me know if there are any problems.
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I think you just made my day by linking to the quicktags thing. I didn’t know it existed, even though I have his sister, the smilies one, installed.
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EDIT: But you can’t show the spoiler without editing the comment while the timer’s running. Heh, curious side effect.
Nosgoroth, thanks for testing things out!
Hmmm… never noticed that interesting side effect. Maybe there’s a cousin relation there! :)
Zyl, could u summarize what you write?
Because i couldn’t stop staring at loli Red and lupe Onee-sama. Gives a whole new meaning to eating grandma.
LOL, I particularly like how Lupe-nee holds Little Red’s chin. ;)
[EDIT: BTW what happened to Anime Refugee? I'm just getting some online dating site ads now...]
looks like Randall forgot to pay the bills hosting ikimashou.net. Since i was using some of his space for free….
ah well, i haven’t been updating it as much as i should anyway. I will wait till i got more time and restart it again at a later date.
Hope things get fixed soon! Looks like the redirects have been causing problems for animenano’s feed parser too…
BTW I’ve been trying Bad Behaviour 2.0.12 since this post was written and it hasn’t reduced the amount of spam being caught by Akismet. On top of that, it blocks my own pingbacks to my own posts. WTF? It seems that this problem also exists for 2.0.13.