September 14, 2014
It's Been Over a Month
...since we began requiring registration for comments. In the meantime a couple of people have reported issues commenting, so...
We're going to see if the spammers have given up on us.
Until further notice, comments are again open to everyone, regardless of registration status.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at
07:10 PM
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Despite the promise made by the picture caption, after more than 12 hours there is a distinct lack of mischief in this thread...
Posted by: Siergen at Mon Sep 15 11:37:06 2014 (r3+4f)
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You said you wanted spam, so now you got it.
It's a mistake to think of spammers as one group-mind that can learn. It's more like a disease, operating mindlessly and taking advantage of any opening.
Over on Metafilter there's a pattern of people who join the site, make a couple of comments on existing threads and then make a spammy front page post. It happens again and again and the mods always spot it and delete the spam. You might wonder why "they don't learn" but the reason is that each new guy who does this isn't aware of any of the others, and thus can't learn from their mistakes.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wed Sep 17 09:23:40 2014 (+rSRq)
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There's also the question of their incentive to learn. I mean... at the end of the day we're talking about spamming operations. There's no "reputable spammer". They're fly-by-night operations by design, because the moment you nail one of them down they get dropped on a million ban lists anyway. That said, what's their incentive to provide "effective" SEO rather than crappy SEO? It's easier to flail around, run some automated spam-attack scripts that generate a few pages you can point to, cash your check, and then go find the next sucker... and if it doesn't actually sell more handbags, what do they care?
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wed Sep 17 17:07:21 2014 (zJsIy)
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Wait..what?
Was there spam while I was gone?
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Sep 17 18:27:54 2014 (DnAJl)
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I didn't see it either. And I was trying to keep a sharp eye out for spam and other mischief. Darn "acceptable use" policy for my work computer...
Posted by: Siergen at Wed Sep 17 19:50:30 2014 (r3+4f)
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The same spammer also hit Pixy, and he seems to have done a full site-purge.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wed Sep 17 20:26:37 2014 (+rSRq)
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Sep 20 03:06:51 2014 (TJ7ih)
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September 13, 2014
Comments Issue
I've been informed that some people are having difficulty commenting. Specifically, I'm told that comments are being sent to moderation and I'm not approving them.
Well, I don't moderate comments. In fact the blog does not even have it as an option, so something is amiss. I tried commenting myself and had no problem so this may be specific to certain users.
Anyway, if you are having any problem commenting, please leave a comme.....
Wait...
Oh well. While our crack team of datapixies work on that problem, I can at least do my bit to help my readers avoid heartbreak. In 1992, I learned to my considerable dismay that the following line does not, in fact, work.
Sugar, spice and copper telluride.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at
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Another one of the science babes, eh?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sat Sep 13 09:43:54 2014 (+rSRq)
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In some browsers, if one is not logged in, then comment just disappears. I don't remember about Chrome, but Midori is like that for sure. This leaves an impression of moderation in action.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sat Sep 13 14:08:27 2014 (RqRa5)
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Hmm, one wonders if the ample supply of "science babes" might not be distracting our host from his studies...
Posted by: Siergen at Sat Sep 13 17:50:10 2014 (r3+4f)
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He should be so lucky...
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sat Sep 13 18:55:42 2014 (+rSRq)
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I get logged out a lot, but the name, mail and web lines appear filled in. But if you don't see the "Hello (name), you are logged in to Minx" line under the preview and post buttons, you're not logged in, and after you hit post, the page reloads, the text box is cleared, and the comment doesn't post.
This can cause a lot of confusion.
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Sep 13 19:22:02 2014 (yigXr)
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The "getting logged off" thing was something Pixy fixed last year. But when we had the meltdown and recovered to an earlier backup, that fix wasn't in the code we retreated to.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sun Sep 14 00:59:23 2014 (+rSRq)
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