Don't Back Down

As I mentioned yesterday, I've been working on a new Movable Type plugin. As you may or may not know, there has been a lot of talk about comment spam recently, and I was hoping to address it. I created the MT-Moderate plugin not too long ago, and it helped for a while. But it mostly helped with human spammers. People that posted on old comments and the like.

This week's problems are different. They are simply overloading the servers. Unfortunately, even MT-Moderate does not address this issue, because to get to the point where it is moderated takes a bit of processing power. Multiply that by a huge number of times and you see the problem. What is needed is something that doesn't take quite as many resources.

Read "MT-Approval 0.1.1" »

Now that you have installed MT-Approval, you may want to take a few more steps to make things work just a little bit better. Unfortunately, if you are using the <$MTCommentFields$> configuration mentioned earlier, you will not currently be able to take advantage of these enhancements. I'm working on it. Please be patient.

MT-Approval requires a comment to be previewed prior to generating the hash field, so you must preview at some point prior to posting. This is not an option. Yes, it is true that you could submit a hash yourself with your post, but you may not be able to get the correct hash, which is the whole point of MT-Approval.

Read "Enhancing MT-Approval" »