Colon Blow and Movable Type 3.2

Awhile ago I wrote that I’d love it if the parasite douchebags who practice comment spamming websites and the shit they spew could be relegated to a Junk folder, never to see the light of day and whose whoredoms are deleted from my database on a regular basis without any act whatsoever from me. Movable Type 3.2 has this functionality. It is SWEET.

But all was not smooth in the migration to 3.2 for this site. My templates hadn’t been upgraded since several versions ago. So my comments script that I run to turn off comments on old posts killed my comments altogether after the upgrade. I didn’t notice this, as my most recent posts are left open for comment until I deem. I close comments for a couple of reasons. One, partially due to an untapped and unrealized God complex and two, partially due to an overdeveloped sense of needing to be able to shut someone the hell up when I want.

So I didn’t notice my missing comments for a few days. I fixed the script, but that meant re-opening all my old comments. I don’t care that much, but some of the conversations are over and I want to keep moving forward, man, because the future, man, the future…

There are a couple of ways, with Movable Type 3.2 to fix this. The first is to use the tag MTIfCommentsActive instead of the MTEntryIfAllowComments tag. Then follow these instructions. I have no idea what this does aside from create a new template, but I did it and it works with my comment closing script.

The Accept Comments checkbox appears to work with the desired effectl if unchecked, it effectively turns off comments. If there are existing comments, they stay on the page and the correct message indicating that comments are closed displays. Extra sweet, if a little confusng.

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  • http://thethreetoedsloth.blogspot.com threetoedsloth

    I was kinda hoping to read a bit more about the Colon Blow part!

  • http://www.ssiidd.com tyler

    Your site, which I found through Dooce, is by far the best blog site that I’ve seen. It’s good to see the time that you spent on both your site and Dooce’s, has come to pay off. Being that movabletype and other such programs can always get the best of us.

    I’m addicted to you and Dooce’s sites. I love the attitude you have towards life and the way that you share it. I wish you both, the very best.

  • amanda

    Did you guys ever get the D70 back from the repair shop?

  • http://www.paterphilosophy.blogspot.com Thomas McCroskey

    Glad I checked in. Like one of the commenters above, I’m just a hapless blogger on blogspot. Just started blogging. See my post on being a computer asshat. Not a tech geek at all. But, Goddammit, right now it’s buggin’ me that nobody seems to be reading me or commenting. Maybe I’m not doing something right. Make my day and read me. Or not. I’ll live, I guess.
    And tell Heather they don’t award grades for motherhood.

  • http://thefathousewife.blogspot.com/ Stizzle

    Did my comment suck? I think it was deleted. If so sorry for sucking.

  • http://postdiluvian.org/~nicole Nicole

    Is there such a thing as rss feed spam? Because all of Heathers posts say they are coming from someone called pheedo​.com, which links to some kind of online drug store. They are also sending “Featured Advertisement” along with her regular feeds.

    Getting spam in my inbox (I read feeds with thunderbird) is extra painful when I’m expecting it to be something new and funny from Dooce.

  • http://blueshoediaries.com angie

    I know I’m late, but am I the only one who knows that Colon Blow came from a SNL skit years ago?

    Man, that was a lot of cereal.

  • http://islandartist.tblog.com Island Jen

    ::singing the SNL commercial jingle::
    Co-lon Blow in Yo-oo-oou, In the Mooorn-in’
    That was a good one :0)

  • centuri0n

    um, g33k? :-)

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