Blog redesign, episode 4

Think I man­aged to install the updated MT-Blacklist. I’ve just been through all com­ments to remove some of the spam that slipped through while the plu­gin was down (we have the same host) and a few oth­ers that some­how found their way to the site.

At first I was a bit con­fused, cause while every­thing is much pret­tier now, I missed the de-spam but­ton. The plu­gin auto-updates, cool, but how do I remove spam already in there? Sur­prise, sur­prise: MT-Blacklist plugs directly into Mov­able Type’s com­ments list­ing, so you just tick your spam off and get MT-Blacklist to do the rest. I can think of a few inter­face improve­ments as you need to go through a few extra steps if your com­ments include too many links, and while I’m sure that’s a good idee, I was left won­der­ing whether the many com­ments I had just care­fully marked were actu­ally being deleted or not. Maybe I’m just tired…

I started off by mark­ing every­thing, plan­ning to just remove the few real com­ments from the list, but it turned out, quite a few good, gen­uine dis­cus­sions had been going on in the com­ments, so I had to reverse my plan. Thanks to every­one for com­ment­ing over the years — and to Dalager for sort­ing out an auto-updater for the pre­vi­ous ver­sion of the Blacklist.

And: If I some­how got you black­listed, please let me know. Apolo­gies in advance! I’ll take a look at Type­key etc. soon — every­thing can happen.