5 Responses to Technical glitch killing comments here »»

1. mathew
   Comment by mathew | 2009/09/18 at 16:33:24

   Is it fixed? Version 2.

   If this goes live, then the technical people have done their job, and I’ll follow this comment with a quick note to fellow blogactiv bloggers on what to do.

   [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ’1055386704 which is not a hashcash value.

2. Mathew
   Comment by Mathew | 2009/09/18 at 16:42:18

   Yep, it looks like commenting works now. Just a temporary glitch caused by upgrading the spam filter to cope with the constant ocean of splog pouring into the servers. May Spammers Roast in Hell.

   If you are a Blogactiv blogger with the same problem, you probably need to enable askimet and hashcash. If I understand this correctly – and I ask the technical people to correct me if I get this wrong – you need to log into your blog’s back-office and:

   1) Dig out any ‘missing’ comments hiding in your akismet spam folder:
   - click on comments, and then Akismet spam.
   - wherever you see a legitimate comment, tick its ‘Not Spam’ box.
   - click ‘De-spam marked comments’ at the bottom of the page

   2) Stop this problem recurring by clicking on ‘Plugins’ (right hand side of the page), and activating both askimet and hashcash.

   [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ’1055386704 which is not a hashcash value.

3. Peter Moss
   Comment by Peter Moss | 2010/03/18 at 00:05:33

   Do you know what was wrong with your plugin?
   I’m just curious to know as I’m thinking about switching to wordpress.

   Thanks,
   Peter

4. mathew
   Comment by mathew | 2010/03/18 at 12:04:20

   It was a site-wide problem with WordPressMU, which is used by Blogactiv to power this site. I haven’t worked at Blogactiv for 2 years, so I am in the dark as much as any other blogger here.

   I’ve only used WordPressMU and WordPress standalone (both on WP.com and on our own server), so I can’t really tell you whether they’re better than other blogging platforms. But both are certainly very user-friendly, have a huge number of plugins and massive developer and designer communities.

   I guess the easiest way to compare it with what you have now is to launch a free blog on a platform like this one, and just play round. You wont be able to install many plugins on a hosted MU platform, but it will give you an idea of how the basics work.

   Good luck, and let me know how you get on!

   Mathew

5. Walter
   Comment by Walter | 2010/03/19 at 21:40:36

   I use Akismet to filter out all the spam comments on my blogs and I never had any glitches with it, legit comments are always going in my “waiting approval” section and all the spam is sent to spam folder.

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