prototypen blog upgrade soon
Comments are not working on all prototypen.com blogs at the moment until I am able to buy the new movable type 3.2 hopefully early next week (they only have one single payment system for it which sucks, but its just the only maintainable (with minimum labour efford) multi author multiblog system out there. I looked at others and they all have the one or other weak point which just would make it uncomfortable to use over here - I need minimum maintainance for the blogs - easy to add new blogs and kill old as well as have no limit on authors. And yes the spammers are the source of the problem with about 45.000 spam attacks per day in the last week the unmaintained spam blocker that was in the otherwise fully functioning nice version of movable type that has powered these blogs til this day killed itself taking with it the spam database that it was checking against (with over 100.000 entries). I am still not convinced that this problem has been solved in movable types 3.2 or any other blog system - either its restricting active commenting from unknown sources or allowing the spammers to get through. I really liked the shared blacklist idea as it allowed anyone without registering or stupidly punching in capcha codes to post a comment without thinking on how to do it and still the number of spams getting through vs. the number of spam trying to get through was extremely minimal. I personally do not post on other blogs who tell me to register or go through a plethora of arcane "verifying" steps until my comment is posted and I think others are acting the same. Basically spam has defeated the free spirit of blogs and if you are a conspiracy theorist you could think that this is its intention and its why there are no stronger enforcements against spammers (especially since 90% of the spam on here came from the US) or it could be "other wing" bloggers giving out addresses in retaliation for blog posts that they donīt like or it could be the corrupt "money rules all" system that every single spammers craves for every single cent and disabling a lot of things that brought them money in the first place - whatever it is it sucks and if I ever meet a spammer on the street I put his head in pile of printed out spam until he drowns in it. So I hope it has not caused much inconvenience for people I will tell the world when all is back to normal again.