Good news everyone!
Normally I don’t report on website updates, but I feel that this is large enough to warrant a note. Generally MMO Fallout doesn’t get a lot of comments, and I think I’ve figured out why. As the folks from the Save City of Heroes group have pointed out, the Bad Behavior plugin I had installed when I transitioned MMO Fallout from a wordpress.com host to its own server (back in February), had been flagging real people as spam bots and not allowing them to post at all, and in some cases not even access the website. After some careful deliberation, I decided that Bad Behavior wasn’t doing its job, and the role of spam-detection has been handed over to Akismet full time.
I’ve been able to tweak the comment system to a much finer point than it was before, and have removed some limitations, and the experiment appears to be a success. Spam is still getting caught, but all comments should now be immediately approved by the system instead of requiring me to go through them by hand. As always, I try to keep the comment system as open as possible. There is no requirement to register, you don’t even have to fill out the username/email box.
This update actually went into effect last week before I left for Comic Con. I wanted to leave the comment system to itself for a few days to make sure everything was running smoothly before announcing anything.
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