I second the proposal for a new category, "Best Comments Community" or similar. It would be a tough competition, but ML would get my nod over Alas, A Blog and Crooked Timber.
BTW, how do you pronounce Koufax? It looks like KOO-fax to me, but I've heard KO-fax (long 'o' like the word 'owe').
Scott, I just got around to checking this thread for signs of life -- many thanks for the recipes. I'll be trying those. Mmmmmmmm, ranch sauce... I bet with a little extra tofu those would make an excellent dip, as well. *drools*
Brooks Moses, PNH: if I understood Brooks' comment, you need to do more than tweak templates to implement that version of force-preview. You need the preview script to write a token (random string?) into the comment text, and the post script to search for a token and post iff it finds one. I'm not quite sure about "hidden" -- "present and viewable in source code but not displayed by browser"? I'm not sure why it needs to be hidden, since the post script could strip it out before posting. But then, perhaps I don't geddit after all.
Portland just had a week of the worst weather in 10 years (it snowed for four whole days, and the temperature dropped to an arctic 18F!!). I was charmed to discover that Portlanders change their usual "have a nice day" to "stay warm" in bad weather.
Y'all stay warm, now.
The idea of a "fixed site" seems distinctly odd to me. I mean, I know what TNH means by it, but I view all web pages as being permanently under construction. A blog merely changes a bit faster/more often than a "fixed" site -- and only the front page of the blog, at that.
It occurred to spouse and I that you could just html-comment out the "post" button on the initial comments screen if you wanted to force a human user to preview (and I think I will do that), but if I understand the issue that would have no effect on a bot going after the comments.cgi script. If that's correct, no amount of force-preview is going to work if the bot can sniff out the names of your cgi scripts because one of them is going to have to post to the blog.
I think I will turn off comments on posts 30 (15?) days old, and maybe rename comments.cgi; if enough MT users do this, and use different alternative names for comments.cgi, the spammers' numbers game becomes significantly less rewarding.
I don't want to use any kind of log-in or email verification if I can avoid it, because I like casual comments. What I would like, though, is a CAPTCHA system which puts the text-graphic next to the comments box, so a poster only has to type a few extra keystrokes before hitting "post". That would not be too much trouble even for a lazy bastard like me. Does anyone know how I might go about acquiring such a thing?
Claude: thanks for the info. I still eat eggs and dairy at home, where I know that they didn't come from factory farms, so I can make myself a version of ranch dressing with your recipes. (Australians call ranches "properties", so maybe I could call it Property Dressing.)
Mmmmmm, ranch sauce (oh man, I haven't had this since I quit eating meat, someone tell me it's vegan!). Bogus burgers. Fries. Ketchup.
God Save America!
(Although the default cheese is a bit weird over here, rather orange and oddly sweet. Is that "monterey jack"? Also, thick slices of pickled beetroot are a must on any True Burger(TM), something 'merrycans don't seem to have understood yet.)
Mmmmmm, ranch sauce (oh man, I haven't had this since I quit eating meat, someone tell me it's vegan!). Bogus burgers. Fries. Ketchup.
God Save America!
(Although the default cheese is a bit weird over here, rather orange and oddly sweet. Is that "monterey jack"? Also, thick slices of pickled beetroot are a must on any True Burger(TM), something 'merrycans don't seem to have understood yet.)
A SourceForge project for a spam tool???? The apocalypse is upon us.
From here, a possible fix:
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Add this to robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /banme.cgi
Then put this on every page:
By banning any robot not honoring your robots.txt, you should get rid of every spambot, leaving only the average cretin dong it manually (against whom I'm afraid you really can't do anything anyway). More interestingly, set the default file to post comments to ban people accessing it and block it from robots.txt as well. There are several ways to do this, but the important thing is: enforce your robots.txt: if they can't play nice, don't let them play at all.
Posted by: Effovex at January 12, 2004 10:22 PM
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Here, a possible nightmare.
I like the "force preview" idea; can I do that in MT? I couldn't see a way to do it from the "blog author" interface (bear in mind that I am a tech-moron).
They got very little meat, and they were short.
They got very little anything, and I don't know whether the ruling classes were significantly taller. If poorer people are over-represented in conscript armies, then the effects of catastrophic losses in war (such as world wars 1 and 2) on national average heights might argue otherwise.
If Yonmei is right about the breastfeeding requirement for healthy vegan babies, that does indicate that animal protein (and possibly lipid) might be necessary, at least in early childhood.
So I finally saw RotK, and I agree with Graydon. It was bloody terrible. Jackson treated the story and the characters without respect, something I really didn't expect after the not-actually-awfulness of the first two movies. One scene sums it up for me, the one where Pippin offers his sword to Denethor. Jackson has Gandalf treat this (and Pippin) as absurd; that was unforgivable. So was the whole movie. (IMO, YMMV, of course.)
Swift away the old year passes,
one for lefties to remember.
Cheer up now, and raise your glasses:
we'll get our own back come November.
I suspect she got really tired of the night shoots and just coudn't put up with them, or that the sword fighting was just beyond her.
I don't think LT is any great shakes as an actress, but I know of no reason to think her as unprofessional as all that. If the director calls for night scenes and swordplay, my guess is she'd do night scenes and learn swordplay.
She's converted from a warrior queen to a trophy bride
Damn. I agreed with Arwen getting a boost in the film version (she's hardly a warrior queen, or even much of a presence, in the books), and heartily approved substituting her for Glorfindel at the ford. What a shame to waste all that setup.
Ungoilant
Typo for Ungoliant?
Ban Guri Ban
Ghân-buri-Ghân -- whom I shall miss even though I understand why he is not in the film.
No Mouth of Sauron? WAIL!
Eowyn kicks ass
Whew! I was sore afraid that she'd be robbed of her big moment, which is my favourite scene in all the books.
More bad cats: my humans' laps do not get more comfortable with kneading, whether I use claws or not; and, turning their backs for a second is not human-speak for "please dive into the clean laundry".
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