comments fixed

My apologies to anyone who has tried to leave a comment in the last few days. I got fed up with the comment spam the other night and went in search of a solution. The blacklist script I'd been using just hasn't been living up to its promises, and while I am sure it has prevented a lot of spam, it was still letting through far too much. The breaking point came when I logged into Movable Type and saw more spam and started deleting it, only to find that the number of comments wasn't changing. Turns out I was getting hit at that moment and for every spam comment I deleted, the bastards were adding one! It really illustrated the futility of it all to me, hence my search for a real solution. Hopefully this is it. From now on you'll just have to type in a small code, shown on a small graphic in the comments popup, each time you post a comment. Real simple, and relatively painless.

And I have to say, Jason kicks ass all over the place. I was having problems with the script and couldn't figure them out, so he helped me. It turned out to be a really stupid probem (uploaded as the wrong type), but I probably wouldn't have thought of checking that on my own. Yay Jason!