Your friendly admin, checking in.
A good evening to all. My name is Jay, and I have my own blog. For a little over a year now Patrick here has been my client when it comes to WordPress and all things blogging. I have already written on my site about the issues with Spam Karma 2, which upon further research I have found has a magic spell that it casts on comments retroactively to “spank” them into moderation after they have been approved. This “retro-spanking” happens as the software post facto examines an approved comment against comments that have been posted in the past.
At this point I do not know how to unbind this particular spell, but at the same time not even Bad Behavior is measuring up to the kind of spam attacks that this site takes. With that in mind I would like to announce unto everyone that I am reinstalling Spam Karma 2 and disabling the granularity check that keeps track of previously approved comments. It is with this hope that any false positives, including retro-spanks, could be avoided. That being the case, I implore upon anyone who disagrees with Patrick politically to please be patient with any disappearing comments. With the hundreds of comments that hit this site it is definite that there will be false positives and that my client will not be able to manually announce which comments have been deleted for cause and which have been retroactively sent to the holding cell.
Please take note that my initial assessment that the false positives are happening due to a bad synergy among other plugins is completely wrong. It is all a behaviour by SK2 and I would like to find out how to fix it, as well.
If we do not notice any improvements in the functionality of the spam blocker, I will disable it and get rid of it completely. I would like to give it another week of trials. In this light, I request some sort of level-headedness. I will be available in the comments of this post, which I will make accessible in the sidebar, as some sort of help forum.
Didn’t you, Paterico, propose a new verb from the Frisch saga – basically sinking one’s career by not stopping one’s self from publicly soiling one’s pants? Anyway, I think you should start a contest for such a thing. I propose the verb:
Frisch, v., reflexive, 1. to torch one’s career by publicly making statements that will guarantee that one is unemployable in any position of trust or responsibility. 2. to publicly make a fool of one’s self for no good reason. 3. to provide prima facae evidence of derangment or psychosis in publicly available, indelible media.
Perhaps other readers could add to this.
Steve G. (feb53c) — 7/16/2006 @ 4:00 amI came here because that Spam Karma thing was so impossible to use on a site I was trying to leave a comment on. The little letters and numbers were absolutely incomprehensible. It was like a bad joke. I guess it killed my commenting ability, along with any spam.
Alexander (9e43cb) — 7/17/2006 @ 5:05 am