Battleangel | Personal

I’ve been frantically trying to cope with the difficulties of upgrading my core modded version of 3.15 to 3.3CVS. The problem was that I had done my own separation of email and URL fields for comments. And better I might say than what they later committed to CVS. But I have to move on and get the new anti-spam functions working.

So you can now output <%userwebsite%> in the comments if it exists. Otherwise the output is blank. But what good does it do? You need to format the URL and without some sort of conditional statement, that is impossible. Would be great if there was such a thing as a <%if(comment,userwebsite)%> or something or you end up with meaningless href or whatever pointing nowhere. Better yet, why not a formatted version of userwebsite that can be set in the template section. Or am I not seeing something here?

<%itemtitle%> remains a problem as it jumbles up encoded chars by encoding the ampersands. Not a problem since 3.22 apparently since itemtitle and other *itemtitle functions allow for settings, like itemtitle(attribute) for instance which sends the chars just as intended.

The new spam plugins (Akismet) seem to do their thing. I added the modified CAPTCHA plugin as well. And removed Blacklist and Comment Control. So this should be the ideal solution that seamlessly captures spammers without inconveniencing the average user. And that doesn’t require constant maintenance.

See this topic for the ongoing development of anti-spam scripting for Nucleus. Even more info over at Rakaz. Plus an insight into the flexibility of spammers.