Michael P. O'Connor

I have now setup my blog to let normal comments go though (unless they have any HTML in them) so right now if you send a comment that does not have HTML in it should be visible after you post it. If I see any hate posts, I will delete them, also I do reserve the right to delete any posts I want for any reason what so ever (heck I don’t even need any reason, if I want to delete a comment I can my site my whims go, this is how it has always been). But comments that have HTML or any Trackbacks will be put in a moderation queue. The reason for this is that the spammers will always use some sort of link and those will follow the normal setup that it has been for a while. But for now for normal comments, I am going to test to see how it goes by not having to moderate them. This test will go for a few days (unless it gets to be a hassel, then I will end the test early), and at that time I may put them all on moderation depending on how people use it, if it is used correctly or are people going to start to post hate messages, and spam.

I now have worked a bit on the site. Any trackback that comes in will go into the moderation pool so that they will not be displayed until I either approve them or copy the IP address to my banned list, and delete them. So now I put the trackback file back to its original name, so people can send trackbacks to my site but they will not be displayed until I approve them, and all spam trackbacks will get their IP address banned and the trackback deleted without ever being displayed, so no google benefit for the effort.

I just got the latest version of the bBlog software and installed it on my site, it all looks fine. I have kept my modifications that I have made to my site, so you the users/readers should not see any changes. The changes are mainly on the admin side of the site. I don’t really like the new interface on the admin side of the program, but the added features that it gives me out weigh the stuff I don’t like in the look and feel. It will be just a matter of time till I get use to it. One of the nice features is the mass deletion of comments; this probably will be used on spam. Also there is mass approval of comments. I am still looking forward to the image verification for comments, but that is promised for version .8 so till then I will still have to deal with spam comments, which all will be deleted. If you my users/readers find any problems please leave a post here with what the problem was and how you got it so I can recreate it, I will read them and look into it