Well, I’m already certifiable these days, for both personal and political reasons. This nonsense with Movable Type and Blacklist is enough to send me over the edge.
(No, Otto, I can’t switch to WordPress; we don’t have MySQL. I guess I could ask Darin and Mitch to install that, but considering they already spent one day of their weekend doing all this, I don’t think they’re gonna.)
Blacklist isn’t working: I’m still getting comment spam that I have to delete manually. I tried to test-comment an entry earlier than 14 days old, simply got an error. Four of my most popular entries (Blue Moon ice cream, Blue Moon ice cream: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, children’s names, and Lazytown) are more than 14 days old.
So, great: I’m already hating this site because even thought MT3.x makes it easier to deal with comment spam, you still have to deal with it. I was hoping Blacklist could solve my problems, but it’s not working.
If one day you just get a 404 in this space, you’ll know why.
And more: My templates are all messed up. Must be something in the Weblog Config; can’t figure out what. Darin has already asked what I can go do for the day to get me out of here.
You may want to check out this new plugin that uses Bayesian filters to weed out comment spam. It’s not without its problems, but it could work better than just a blacklist.
Installing MySQL is super easy. I can do it in less than half an hour and Darin would only be faster. It can also be done remotely by anyone you give shell access to. So don’t let that stand in your way!