Site Administration

Fighting Spam with Mollom

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 20:19

I have to figure that the spam arriving on this site comes either from a clever automated process or from people who are too dumb to realise their efforts are useless.

To this point, I've worked with moderated comments, but the volume of spam is getting higher than I want to deal with manually.

Enter Mollom - a network based approach to fighting spam.

It'll be interesting to see how well it works.

On Comments and Spam

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 01/04/2011 - 08:32

I've never understood vandals.

A small proportion of the graffiti in any big city can be considered as "urban art" because of the talent and time required for its execution, but most graffiti seems to be worse than useless. Tagging is particularly daft, as the perpetrators are effectively autographing their crime.

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Tweaking "Read More"

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 05/12/2010 - 13:22

I've made a small tweak to the display of posts, moving the "Read More" link into a more prominent position, easier to find. Interested in your feedback.

CAPTCHA Fixed

Submitted by Bevan on Wed, 13/10/2010 - 06:59

I'm not quite sure how, but the settings for CAPTCHA on comments got dropped, making it impossible for people to post comments. I think it's fixed now - will keep an eye on it over the next few days to be sure.

Apologies for the problems.

Printer Friendly Pages

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 05/10/2010 - 21:54

I've always hated those websites that make it difficult to print out a page, either preventing the print completely, or truncating after one page.

You can imagine my horror when I discovered that my own site was broken in this way - printing didn't work properly from FireFox or Chrome (Internet Explorer was Ok).

I've now installed Printer Friendly Pages to enable easy printing - at the end of every blog post or article is a link to a printer friendly version.

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