In a bid to combat spam and trackback spam, I have installed a new plugin available to all blogs on The ComLuv Network. It’s called Auto-close and allows every blog owner to set the maximum period a post or page can receive comments.
I used to get an awful lot of spam comments on posts that were waaaay deep and posted long ago, so I have it activated on my FiddyP blog and it’s working fine for now. I’ll see how it goes and see if there’s a better solution than just closing all the comments, maybe showing the existing comments and not accepting new ones would be better.
What do you think about closing comments on old posts? completely close or send new ones to the moderation queue after a certain amount of time?
Instructions
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Visit the plugins page in your dashboard and activate the plugin by clicking the “activate” link on the right side of the box.
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Go to settings on the left sidebar and select “auto-close” to view the settings page and enter the number of days you want to keep a post open for comments. You need to check the box for close comments on posts for it to take effect.
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The first time you set it up, you can set it to run once per day at a time you specify and then you can click “save options and run once”.
If you want to open up comments and trackbacks again (if you use a new plugin to control comments) then click the “open comments” and “open page” buttons to open them up to comments and display the existing ones again.
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I don’t understand the problem this is trying to solve. Aren’t all comments moderated anyway?
Wondering what the progress is on the problem with feedburner RSS?
Twitter: commentluv
says:
David: it’s solving the problem of having to go through the moderated comments queue again and again because of spam on old posts.
I also have to consider the amount of blogs on this server and how much database space is used up with auto generated spam and trackback spam for every one of them. You’d be surprised at how quick a database can grow with even just a few hundred blogs getting a mild amount of spam.
what is it you mean by problem with feedburner rss?
Andy Bailey´s last blog ..Changed tag results page and some branding here and there
Thanks for the reply, Andy,
I can see how the database can get overburdened with spam, so to answer your original question, I’m not sure what you mean by “or send new ones to the moderation queue after a certain amount of time?”
The problem with my feedburner RSS is that commentluv can’t seem to pick up my feed anymore. It used to pick it up when I ran my blog from quillcardsblog.com, but now that I am running it from http://quillcards.com/blog it doesn’t recognize it, though other services do – my readers receive it OK, my links to the service on other blogs I run receive it OK. Only commentluv and Linkedin seem to have a problem receiving it.
You can see here below that it says ‘no blog posts found’ but I have my feed set up and commentluv isn’t recognizing it.
I ran the usual tests that feedburner recommends (Check your feeds for validity problems: Original Feed Validity, FeedBurner Feed Validity) and no errors were reported.
I recall that a week or so ago you left a comment somewhere, perhaps on Twitter, that you were looking into the Feedburner parsing problem. What is the progress on that?
Twitter: commentluv
says:
David: at the moment there are only 3 items on your feed but many more on your blog, this could the problem. Commentluv wont return posts for feeds that don’t have a minimum number of items (to prevent spam)
Andy Bailey´s last blog ..Changed tag results page and some branding here and there
Bump?
Twitter: commentluv
says:
like I said David, your feed only has 3 items on it. commentluv api will see that as a new blog or spam blog. you need to have more posts showing on your feed.
please use the support tickets for support. comments are supposed to be about the post they are commenting on.
thanks