Improving comment management

Thomas D
2/27/2010 2:19:28 AM #

That list looks real good. I can't think of anything to add.

lawmacs
2/27/2010 4:17:18 AM #

This is a brilliant list just a question here would inco-operating disqus or intense debate still save your comments to our own database another thing is this i read a post some where and it was pointed out that the spammers target that "Notify me when new comments are added" this is the search term they use thanks for your support.

adrian
2/27/2010 8:17:57 AM #

Well, regarding a captcha outr-of-the-box in BE, I think this would be great.
I've added on my blog a solution found on the web, now I'm using the recaptcha one from Filip Stanek, and since adding the captcha in place, about 9 days ago, I only received 4 spam comments. Without it in place, I would have received at least over 1000 spam comments during those 9 days.

As a suggestion, I think it would be nice to be able to deny the adding of comments based on some criteria. Usually spam is similar to a black campaign, they try to promote something, either raise a specific web site rank, sell something, etc. Simply put, is primarily all about the links they link. Sometimes such campaigns are aggressive(even with a captcha in place as this cannot stop human made spam), so it can be quite handy to deny/reject comments based on specific elements. To compare with something, say like mail servers who can reject certain email messages, thus reduce what actually gets into the inbox.

Cheers!
--Adrian

rtur.net
2/27/2010 9:45:02 AM #

I'm thinking about creating a service that will verify against such criteria, so that link for campaign blocked on one site would go straight to the black list available to everyone. Similar to "stop forum spam", but not based on IP. Just don't have time for it right now.

adrian
2/27/2010 12:45:30 PM #

That sounds like a neat service and idea. :)

Mathias
2/27/2010 2:20:12 PM #

Having the Captcha, black/white list as part of the standard blogengine.net would really be great! Some spam is inevitable, but with the recent wave of garbage comments, I have spent way more time than I would like just deleting these. Keep up with the great job!

Steven
2/28/2010 9:54:24 PM #

Maybe I've missed something obvious here, but I don't see where I can edit my Akismet settings anymoe without going to the old commentor extension, so maybe you could add that to the list?

rtur.net
2/28/2010 10:29:37 PM #

Similar - just go to AkismetFilter settings and enter your key. Here is link to documentation: http://blogengine.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=CommentManagement&referringTitle=Documentation

Steven
3/4/2010 1:17:12 PM #

thanks for the info.  for some reason I just looked over it.

I do have quite a bit of spam comming through marked as whitelist rule but I do think the new design gives a lot of flexibility.

Steven
3/20/2010 6:44:47 AM #

It's be nice if you could add a page size setting as well go through potentially hundreds of comments 5 at a time is painful.

rtur.net
3/21/2010 10:46:43 PM #

If you talking about comments grid, you can set page size in the comments/configuration/comments per page. Filter grid does not have it, but you can change it pretty easily by changing page size in the control markup (settings.aspx).

Pravesh Soni
3/21/2010 6:56:39 AM #

Great post. I'm looking for antispam for my blog. May be you can help as I'm struggling with them. I've added CAPTCHA but no success as there are paid spamming through humans. Can you help how to integrate IntenseDebate in BE1.6?

Filip Stanek
3/23/2010 10:50:50 PM #

Those are some nice fixes! I generally don't do the incremental updates, so hopefully you guys have a 1.61 or some similar release in the near future with these changes integrated.

One thing I would love to see is the ability to split the comments into different tabs - a tab for approved comments, a tab for trackbacks/pingbacks, and a tab for unapproved comments ( visible if you are logged in ).  I put something like this into my current blog (my changes are available for download ). The only problem with my solution is that I have a currently non-working comment rating system integrated with those changes.  It should be pretty simple to fix as it is just not saving the data properly, but I just haven't had any time in the past couple of weeks to work on it.  Removing the rating code or implementing it in your own way shouldn't be too much of a problem either. A description of what I'm talking about is located at: http://www.bloodforge.com/post/New-and-Improved-Comment-System-for-BlogEngineNET.aspx

One "issue" I've ran into when creating the rating extension is that it is not possible to add custom properties to a comment. For example, adding a "rating" field that is associated with the comment required changes in more places than I expected - the main problem being that BE.Core had to be modified. It would be nice if at some point in the future we could add our own properties to the comment (maybe create a field that is a StringDictionary or something similar). This will make it easier for people to create extensions for BE.NET, which should be one of the goals of the BE.NET team.

BTW, I did reply to you about the reCaptcha - sorry for the slow reply, but I haven't been checking my personal email in the past few days. Apart from the "manual moderation" (possible) bug that I wrote to you about, I had a couple other things on my to-do list. The first was making it so that you can add/remove the recaptcha from the contact page via a checkbox. The other was that you can add the recaptcha to the login page. I do have the contact page (standard theme only) updated with the recaptcha, although there is no toggle checkbox [http://www.bloodforge.com/post/Updated-Contact-Page-e28093-Now-with-a-reCaptcha.aspx]. I haven't written any code for the login page yet.

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