Things were just going too smoothly. I thought my SK2 plugin was doing dandy, catching everything it was supposed to. And it was, though my average daily take has been hovering about 5 or 10 now. What should have been obvious was that I actually haven’t received any comments recently. I finally discovered why: there was a domain blacklist that had a domain of, simply, “2006″. Due to the way the plugin handles domain blacklist denials, any attempted comment on any post that happened to be posted in the year 2006 would get denied. That’s what we refer to in the software industry as a “head slapper.” Well, that’s the most censored possibility of many.
I’ll have to redesign some things. mod_security should be able to squirrel me out of this, as it allows you to check particular fields within query strings, so I should be able to look at just the URL and actual comment text instead of the entire argument list.
The worst part of this is that the only way I found out was following a referral back to a forum post where some poor fellow mentioned that he was unable to post a comment. “Horseshit,” said I and decided to post a test comment. I got denied. Head slap. Sorry ava11 and whoever else.
Monkeyboy Says:December 6th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
How about this comment? Can you publish this?
Nick Says:December 6th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
I tried to comment the other day and couldn’t, so that must have been the problem. Looked around your site for a contact form to let you know, but couldn’t find one anywhere.
Nick Says:December 6th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Now I tried to comment again on your Halo 3 trailer post and it tells me I’m a spammer.
ColdForged Says:December 6th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Well, you are spammer
. Thanks for the notice, I’ll look into it.
dvg Says:December 6th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
FINALLY!
I wanted to post a comment on the mod_security / spam karma 2 post and was blocked. “How ironic!” I thought.
I’ve tried mailing you at dozens of aliases @coldforged.com and they’ve all bounced. I spent hours reading your site trying to find an email address or contact page for you. I hired a Tibetan guide to find you. I was desperate to let you know about the bug.
Eventually, after three or four minutes, I decided to just wait to see how long it would take you to realize it.
Glad to be able to comment again. Although now I can’t remember what it was I wanted to say.
Probably something along the lines of, “Hey! This is cool. Please let me know when you finish this plugin!”
Geof F. Morris Says:June 1st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Any progress on this? I’d be terribly excited to roll such a plugin out were it available, and am willing to toss some fundage your way if it’ll help.