Nuketown

New Nuketown Comment System

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 8:53pm

I've installed a new comment system on Nuketown. It used to be you needed an account on Nuketown to post a comment; now anyone can. What stops the site from becoming a spam-infested hell is a module called Askimet, which checks the messages against a central spam catching server. It flags the incoming spam, and prevents it from being posted.

There's still an advantage to being a registered user -- you can post without having your comments moderated. Also, the site will automatically sign any of your posts for you. Anonymous users can post comments without an account, but I need to approve anything before it goes live.

I'd appreciate it if folks could post a few comments replying to this post so I can see how well works.


Fri, 03/21/2008 - 10:35am

Seems like it's working.

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Blah, BLah, Blah (not verified) said,

Fri, 03/21/2008 - 9:07am

Test without anonymous user name.

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Anonymous (not verified) said,

Fri, 03/21/2008 - 8:01am

Mary had a little lamb....

Hope everything works ok mate. :)

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Fri, 03/21/2008 - 9:05am

What do you folks think of having the default username be "Anonymous"? Would it be better to leave the field blank, and have people fill in their own names (a la WordPress?)? 'Cause it seems like we're going to be having a lot of "Anonymous" authors. :)

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Fri, 03/21/2008 - 9:40am

I like it better without the default "anonymous". So I changed it.

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Anonymous (not verified) said,

Fri, 03/21/2008 - 7:51am

Hope this works for you.

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Fri, 03/21/2008 - 4:51am

sounds like a nice simple solution!

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Fri, 03/21/2008 - 7:56am

Thanks -- it is pretty straightforward, and I think it'll make it a little easier for folks to stop by and ask questions or post a quick response to an article.

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Anonymous (not verified) said,

Thu, 03/20/2008 - 9:06pm

Here's my own test response.

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