Since I put in the spam password on comments a while back, MovableType has developed some sophisticated anti-spam features. Upgrading to version 3.2 basically wiped out the spam password technique, which I thought I would have to figure out how to put back in. But in looking at the new features, I’m not sure we need the password.<\/p>\n
MovableType is rating comments as junk or not. And it is learning what we all think is junk. So it may be that we do not need a password. For example, Mom just posted a comment that got rated +1 (plus is good minus is bad. I don’t know how or low the numbers go.) It decided +1 because of this:<\/p>\n
Final Feedback Rating: +1<\/strong><\/p>\n Test Score Results<\/p>\n SpamLookup Link Filter +1.0 No links are present in feedback<\/strong><\/p>\n SpamLookup Email Memory +1.0 E-mail was previously published (comment id 18)<\/strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n Since I’ve allowed comments with her e-mail before, that is considered positive. I can turn on auto-publish for comments that have a positive rating.<\/p>\n More testing needed, but it would be good to not have to have passwords. Then well-intended acquaintances can add comments. What do you think? Leave a comment. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I put in the spam password on comments a while back, MovableType has developed some sophisticated anti-spam features. Upgrading to version 3.2 basically wiped out the spam password technique, which I thought I would have to figure out how … Continue reading