If you are not extremely proficient in MT, would you please refrain from making changes to the blacklist? The biweekly comment outages due to inept changes to the blacklist are getting out of hand.
You may mean well, but you are screwing up the site for everyone else. If you don't know how to undo your changes, stop making them.
And if you make a change, test the comments immediately thereafter. Don't just assume you did things correctly and walk away from the computer and leave the system screwed up for everyone else.
Some of you know what you are doing. Some of you only think you know what you are doing. Please take a moment to realistically evaluate your technical skills and categorize yourself correctly.
The blacklist affects everyone, and your errors shut down an important feature of blogging. Please bear that in mind the next time you decide to play around with something you don't entirely understand.
Thank you.
Pixy,
May I make a recomendation? Would it not be possible to password protect the blacklist and appoint some kind of MuNu blacklist committee? That way those with spam issue would have a definitive group to approach and hopefully the outages would be minimalised.
Just my 2 pence
Rob
Posted by Rob at July 19, 2006 11:26 PMNo, it's not possible. The blacklist code and database alike are a total frigging nightmare. (All of the Movable Type code is nightmarish, but the rest of the database is okay.)
Posted by Pixy Misa at July 20, 2006 02:16 AMI don't touch the blacklist anymore and haven't for awhile. I've been so worried it could be me botching it up, I've even passed something through Pixy to make sure it was right. But what I'd like to know is... is there someone that I can pass my stuff too, other than Pixy who I HATE to bother any more than I have to, that we know is technically proficient enough to be able to add my stuff to the blacklist?
Posted by Bou at July 20, 2006 03:44 AMPixy,
I know that when you shut off the Blacklist for a few days all hell broke loose, so clearly until we are Minxed that is not an option. Is it possible to just freeze it in its current state. Leave it running and not allow changes. It might let in a trickle of crap, but that's better than opening the floodgates or having everyone's comments fragged every other day.
Posted by Stephen Macklin at July 21, 2006 02:28 AMMinx comments are working right now at Ace's. I'll have a post on how you can use them on your blog tomorrow.
