Happy Easter/Passover. I hope you have/had a festive holiday.
I’ll be honest. I don’t know exactly how all the security changes I put in are interacting with each other. I’m still getting a flood of spam diaries, and now some long-time users can’t post diaries. So, it’s a less than optimal solution right now.
Part of the solution is to throw some mojo love around to people you recognize from long experience. So, in this thread, make sure to uprate the comments of all familiar denizens of the Frog Pond. And if any strangers pop their heads in searching for free mojo, blast them into oblivion.
This is the best way to get people who should have the privilege their diary posting rights back without telling spammers how to game the system.
Talk about whatever you want.
…the direct result of being an unclassifiable thinker, as far as I am concerned. Thus I cannot post any articles.
Booman wrote me and said:
“Go into the mojo thread I posted and hopefully you can accumulate enough ‘4’s to get your mojo up to where it needs to be.”
So here I am, begging for ‘4’s. If you want to read any more of my stuff, ‘4’ this post. If not? Vote me off the island. Your choice. Dis is dumbocracy in action, I guess.
Later…
AG
you probably would benefit from getting good ratings on multiple comments rather than a ton on just one comment.
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Damn you AG!
You won’t succumb to the AG hysteria of criticism and still Stand Your Ground?
You are persuading me to add 4’s to your lousy comments I don’t agree with so you can post diaries here at the pond?
It shouldn’t get any worse.
Nightmares.
Or else, I’ll turn to watching TV.
Subscribe to some massy media thingy.
PTSD
Not a Happy Easter AG.
I’ll go search for
eggscomments and add some 4’s.You can always enter the Cafe/Lounge for a quick fix and some mojo.
Surprise me with your next diary.
Regards.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Oh no!
Not another AG
Spaces and all!
Bet on it
FS
OK Arthur, here ya go. Happy easter!
I needed hints to from the easter bunny to find my chocolate this morning — tricky bunny left it under under my pillow.
I can’t post diaries at the moment but inspiration is lacking in any case, so no loss. It looks like you are going to have to invalidate all users above a certain user ID # and institute a new procedure whereby you have to approve a new user before granting them “trusted” status with the facility to post diaries. PITA I know. ET also grants wider FP story posting rights to a select few (beyond the usual FPers) and I have never seen the privilege abused. Perhaps its a back handed compliment that the e-marketeers regard Booman as a worthwhile target for their worthless efforts.
something funky is going on with Frank’s comment. Not sure how to fix it.
Ah, the toggle button strikes for the first time in over a half-decade.
I always hate being toggled…
I’m just surprised that my massive mojo stockpile (under the bed, of course) hasn’t naturally seeped into the intertubes.
Don’t block me! I love this blog, but rarely comment. I’m rather new as an occasional commenter, but I read every day.
No need to worry, I think – unless you plan to post diaries. I think TU-status is becoming a requirement to post diaries. All other activities remain as they are.
Though I rarely post or comment–the books eat all of writing energy these days–I’m still around.
Wiped out every comment I ever posted in my profile.
How’d you do that?
Not sure, they’re not where they usually are in my profile could only find them by searching. But new ones show up.
They’re probably in the archive where all old comments go – look for the relevant button on the search page.
please gimme some 4s. not that I post diaries, but just because I’m a fan of the number four.
That was really nice.
Hope this rate thing worked
worth a try, eh.
haven’t commented much recently, but the trib is the first blog l check every day.
btw, user menu’s down to
comments
ratings
settings
logout
good luck sorting this out.
later
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See my earlier comment: The fix is in.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I noticed I couldn’t do a diary but I really don’t have any intention on doing one anytime soon.
Good luck on solving your spam problem Booman, it’s part of the reason I never started a blog like this; the other reason was lack of talent.
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See Booman fp story Site update.
FAQ Spam and the end to blogging?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I’m slightly confused by your links, I read the previous post by Booman and the FAQ on Spam didn’t seem to pertain.
So thanks.
Mojo me please. Haven’t posted in a long while.
Happy Easter!
(now i will go give some mojo)
It seems like all the spammer handles have numbers in them — or at least most of them. Is it feasible to ask real folks with numbers to drop them (or write them out, maybe) and then automatically trash any new names with numbers in them?
(This feels so wierd all of a sudden — like I’m trying to figure out a sure way to identify witches or something. Maybe the “technology is magic” notion goes further than we thought.)
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I made the suggestion to take a drastic step and delete the most recent 30,000 users. That covers all the diary spammers.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I can’t even erase one user file. All I can do is take away their privileges, by hand, one at a time.
I have to hire a programmer to do any of these types of fixes.
If you get me the credentials to log into the data base, I can zap whomever you want.
send me an email with your phone number.
I haven’t put up a diary in years but now that I’ve lost the ability to do so I feel the itch to contribute. I had a good verbal rant at my neighbor today who said I should make a commercial touting the amazing truth about Obamacare. So yeah, I guess I will share that as soon as I get my Diary option back and get the darn rant into a reasonable set of statements.
Stop by the Cafe/Lounge and we’ll help out with some mojo.
Late to the mojo party. Waves to all.