Stripey and Zyl alerted me last night that there were some issues with commenting. I had been trying a new plugin to automatically moderate pingbacks, but I think the new plugin didn’t play very well with SK2. Oh well, back to moderating pingbacks from new splogs by hand.
The error message received was:
WordPress Error: Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
After I disabled the new plugin, I tried leaving a test comment while not logged in as an admin and it worked. If you come across this commenting problem, please let me know!
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I’m guessing you’ve been getting those wretched spam pingbacks? I decided to eschew SK2 in favour of Akismet since Akismet is superior in dealing with those, and there’s been none of those slipping through after I installed it.
I dont know this spam is that you talk of. I only get friendly pingbacks from people who think I write “interesting articles”!
“WordPress Error: Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!”
Cyber-telepathy ? Groovy !
I’ve decided to switch back to Akismet for the time being, especially since I know that development will continue on Akismet whereas SK2 relies on the efforts of (for the most part) one person.
I had some problems in the past with Akismet and false positives, but I am going to run it in conjunction with Bad Behavior, which should cut down on the really obvious spam and make the queue small enough to review on a consistent basis.
Funny that you should mention the “interesting article” splog pingbacks. There was a recent post on the Akismet blog about this very subject.
I think you can disable pingbacks completely, right?
You can, but I like legit pingbacks. I also especially like self-pingbacks to link posts together. It’s just the darn scraper sites that make it so hard to have pingbacks enabled.
Totali > I dont know this spam is that you talk of. I only get friendly pingbacks from people who think I write “interesting articles”!
You mean…they don’t think I write interesting articles?
I think my wordpress blog was up for something like six hours before I got my first spam comment. This stuff is just crazy.
Scrapper sites that leave pingbacks do report their IPs via the TB though so they’re easily to put on a blacklist, IP deny or feed-poison next time round. I suppose they saw the TB as a way of getting past SK2′s screening.
I did blacklist the sites, but while that prevents later pingback spam, I wanted to block new spam from ever appearing on the site. So far, Akismet has done a much better job of catching pingback spam, and with Bad Behavior filtering out the 3,000ish obvious spams each week, it’s been much easier this time around to go through the spam queue and see if any false positives showed up.
I like your differently colored author comments – that’s a neat feature.