MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse

GA - Keith (GayAmerican.org):

How can I determine which version I have?

Posted on November 29, 2004 21:19 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Carla (carmige.com):

I didn't have this problem when I used MT 3.0D, but I did encounter the problem when using MT 3.1. However, when I upgraded to MT 3.12, the problem went away. I just deleted one of my test blogs moments ago and there were no issues.

Posted on November 29, 2004 21:24 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Jay Allen (jayallen.org):

keith, look at the bottom of the screen when you load the MT-Blacklist administrative interface.

Carla, you're brave. To everyone else don't delete any weblogs until the next version comes out.

Posted on November 29, 2004 21:34 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Michael Croft :

Heh. Just addressed this in your support forum. I have a database dump and a repeatable case. If you want to send me an instrumented/debug version of MT blacklist, I can help debug.

Posted on November 29, 2004 22:18 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

shelley at six apart (sixapart.com):

To address what Carla said about version 3.12 - all of my testing (outlined in the Movable Type forum topic) was done in 3.121. As Jay points out, the behavior is highly inconsistent, so just because you can delete one weblog without ill effect does not mean you'll be safe the next time you delete one.

Posted on November 29, 2004 22:20 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

zach (e53.org/trashcan):

Ha.. and I thought I was like.. blacking out and deleting blogs or somthing.

The strange thing is that the blogs are actually still in the database..they just dont show up in MT.

Posted on November 30, 2004 01:06 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Jay Allen (jayallen.org):

And by the way, I've noticed a lot of comments around the blogosphere saying things that are generally ridiculous. This comment is directed at those people (and only those people).

Paraphrasing:

I'm really disappointed in Six Apart for shipping this code.

or

Six Apart is responsible for this because the MT-Blacklist author works for Six Apart and is product manager for MT.

or

MT and MT-Blacklist (which are one in the same since the author of the latter is the product manager of the former)

To those of you who said things like this, I'd like to ask you to stay off of the crack.

Seriously though, I just started working at Six apart two weeks ago. This bug in MT-Blacklist was shipped long before that time. What's more, this is a bug in my software (not Six Apart's) and is my responsibility to fix as well as to alert people to it.

Six Apart does not own my code, nor do they own me. What I publish under Jayallen.org is mine and does not represent the company I work for (you bloggers, of all people, should understand this concept.) Here, I am, in fact, the same old benevolent (although sometimes quick to anger) tyrant you always knew.

And the first person who says that I surreptitiously put this bug in in order to increase the number of weblogs on individual installations (and hence the license fees to 6A) will get a punch in the nose special delivery from me.

In short, stop being a bunch of boneheads and let me concentrate on getting this fix out. And yes, that includes arguing with me pendantically about what I've posted above. I mean it. Don't even do it. I'm not in the mood today.

Posted on November 30, 2004 04:19 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

dennis (dennis.ca/weblog):

Jay:

Don't sweat the negative comments. There would have been complaints regardless of how things played out. As you most certainly recall, there was mass pandemonium because a lot of people simply couldn't wait for a 3.x version of MT-B to be released in the first place.

If people want to complain, they can blame the beta testers -- and they can drop me an email any time to discuss how my installation of MT-B has blocked 9850 comment/trackback spams since I installed it. ;)

Posted on November 30, 2004 04:50 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

demonsurfer (demon.twinflame.org):

Y'know, there's one thing that the internet really has bought to my attention, and that's just how many complete and utter idiots and assholes there are in this world. It's seriously depressing.

Posted on November 30, 2004 06:54 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Mark (kaedrin.com/weblog):

zach (and I guess Jay as well) - if your blogs are still in the database, it may just be that your username doesn't have the correct permissions set anymore. When I converted to MySQL a while back I found that I couldn't see my blogs, but I was able to fix that by changing my user permissions with MT-Medic ( http://www.nonplus.net/software/mt/MT-Medic.htm ).

I don't know if the blacklist bug is doing the same thing, but zach's post made me think of that, so it's worth a shot. Hope this helps...

Posted on November 30, 2004 15:16 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Michael Croft :

Mark, sort of. IME, it doesn't 'delete' the second blog, but it removes all entries, comments, templates, and user permissions. MT Medic was the first thing I tried, but the contents were still gone.

Posted on November 30, 2004 19:48 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Political Pulpit (politicalpuzzle.org):

Dag nab it! I JUST deleted a blog on my site, and then things started to act funny. THEN, I just happened to notice this message not to delete any weblogs.

What a disaster.

Posted on December 01, 2004 08:48 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Political Pulpit (politicalpuzzle.org):

Okay, Jay, I am not blaming you. I should have read the warning. Perhaps 6A could post a news item so that more people can see it? The only way I found out was to go to the Blacklist interface.

I know you are on top of it. I will recover.

Posted on December 01, 2004 08:53 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Red Wolf (redwolf.com.au/column/opinion):

Occasionally when I check spam comments to be deleted it will pull other non-spam comments out and into the delete window, sometimes from other blogs. Doesn't happen often, maybe a handful of times from the thousands of items of crap I've removed, but it is a little freaky when it does occur. Was wondering if this behaviour is related to the blog deletion bug.

Posted on December 01, 2004 10:38 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Karl Swedberg (englishrules.com):

Jay, Thank you so much for announcing this. It shows a lot of integrity for you to come forth and admit to making a mistake. I wish more major corporations (and one current President) that kind of courage.

The warning comes too late for me, but hopefully many others will see it before inadvertently deleting blogs. A couple weeks ago I deleted a test blog and lost an important one in the process. I posted a note on a thread in the Movable Type support forum, and it seemed like others were having similar problems at the time, though nobody was sure why. Fortunately, I had just exported the mysql database the night before, so I was able to restore everything in a matter of hours. I'm using v. 3.12, by the way. Good luck with the fix. Eager to hear when it's finished.

Posted on December 02, 2004 03:50 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Gean :

Thanks your help

Posted on December 03, 2004 01:37 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

RedJen (redjenosu.com):

I hit this problem when deleting a "dummy" blog like other people. I did find that the blog that no longer shows up in the MT list did not actually delete the archive files. I was able to salvage the archives and made them available using html from the index file of the blog.

You can find this blog at http://abms.redjenosu.com

Posted on December 07, 2004 19:29 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Andrew (camelfish.com):

Jay,

I've just done exactly the same thing as Karl above did, only I didn't just export the MySQL database (not that I know what to do with it anyway...)

Any suggestions on what I can do to get up and running again?

Thanks

Posted on December 30, 2004 05:32 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Jay Allen (jayallen.org):

Try MT-Medic to see if the data is still in your database. If so, MT-Medic can fix it. If it's not, then there's nothing that can be done. Sorry about that. :-(

Posted on December 30, 2004 08:59 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Tom Keating (voip-blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani):

ACk! MY boss deleted his weblog (VoIP Blog ) when he was trying to quickly delete a duplicate post.

is there a way to recreate the MT database from the HTML files?

p.s. love the MT-blacklist plugin!

Posted on January 13, 2005 10:58 CET [edit] | '; } ?>

Matt (getupoutmy.biz):

NOOOO!!!! I found this page when I was searching to see if there was any way to recover a deleted blog! This makes me so sad

Posted on January 25, 2005 12:02 CET [edit] | '; } ?>