Six Apart has just released TypePad 1.6, that includes a few interesting features including (at last) one I have been longing for: Comment/TrackBack moderation.
It is now turned on - which means that your comments/trackbacks will not appear immediately.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am just sick of removing all these stupid comments and trackbacks that these assholes ('scuse my French) are leaving here on a daily basis.
Also: there seems to be a template problem in TypePad that makes my TypeLists downright ugly. I have opened a ticket and hope that this will be fixed soon. RTFM! This is a known problem and all blogs need to be re-published. An automated procedure is under way, but if you can't wait, you have to manually re-save the configuration all your typelists and re-publish your design. And if you have no clue as to what I just said - you probably want to wait for the automatic script to deal with your blog anyway :-).
Update: I was asked why I chose moderation over TypeKey authentication. I wanted to turn on TrackBack moderation because I have been "under attack" by trackback spammers. I am actually wondering whether Six Apart has stopped filtering trackback spam because I have never received so much of it than over the past 24 hours.
Because the moderation setting applies to both comments and trackbacks, I did not want to impose TypeKey authentication + moderation on my readers. Anyone knows whether authenticated comments are also moderated ? Seems to me that I have validated a given TypeKey, then I'd be OK to let comments appear without moderation.
Just read that Ross and Steve Rubel are having issues with the TypeKey option for comments.
More:
- Neville has a good commentary on some of the new features.
Jeff, yours is the first TypePad blog on which I'm leaving a comment that has the new comment moderation feature emabled. Hope it works!
I've not enabled moderation on my blog, just TypeKey authentication. And I've done that as a voluntary thing.
I'd prefer not to have to do any of these things; much depends on what happens with spam.
Posted by: Nevon | July 03, 2005 at 01:40 AM