The Blackboard

While I am away
I can’t supervise comments
most threads have been closed.
As I mentioned two posts ago, I will be on travel. Jim is on the home front taking care of the cats / house / garden / his parents / etc. while I check on my Dad. I plan to return a week [...]

The settings on my troll control plugin have been adjusted. The troll plugin really needs a different name because full blown trolls will just be banned. However, even non-trolls sometimes get a bit carried a way.
So, to deal with food-fights, currently, when anyone posts, the plugin looks at the author’s of the previous [...]

The thing about trolls…. is they are obnoxious.
Some of you will recall I wrote a first draft of a troll control plugin, which would display comments from trolls to the troll, but not others. However, I discovered that method used too much CPU when comment threads were long. So, I devised [...]

I’m tweaking Troll Control to be more troll hostile. It will block trolls from reading or posting comments.
However, implementing involves changing the theme and the plugin. I’m doing this live at the blog, which is, in some ways stupid…. but it’s also in same ways easier.
Dan Hughes who IS NOT in [...]

Every now and then, blogs attracted visitors who are less than well behaved. These visitors may sometimes say useful things sometimes, but they also have a tendency to start fights. In fact, reading their comments, one often suspects they actually want to start fights rather than advance any conversation.
These visitors are known as [...]