Rou

Alright. First off, I love this site. I get to smack down people that deserve it, and I don’t even have to hire a lawyer to get them to drop the charges.

However, I admit. I have one problem with this place. The blacklist. OMG. It kills me. It’s grown to a fairly massive size and it seems to have a handful or really innocuous words in it. I know, it stops spammers, which I like and all. But there really needs to be some way around it for authorized members or something.

I can’t explain how much time I’ve spent trying to fix a comment so that it will post. It would be so bad if it told you why it wasn’t allowing your comment. But instead it just says “Invalid comment”. Which leads to the whole abortion series we had a few posts ago.

I'm just glad I figured out how to do it myself instead of having to cry for help every time. Ditto with removing comment spam from the site en masse.

I dunno. Maybe a CAPTCHA or something similar. Those aren’t entirely effective, but the blacklist in its current state is only slightly better. I’m hoping the new version of b2e will be more reliable. I think it’s in beta now, so I’m crossing my fingers.

Balancing the annoyance of the protections use versus the annoyance of spammers is difficult, I know. And lord knows those little spamming bots can be a real pain in the ass.

I don’t want to sound bitchy, and my heart isn’t really in this for a full scale rant. Mostly it’s just a little venting about the blacklist’s overzealous nature from time to time.

Please don’t kill me u235!!!