I’ve just upgraded movabletype, the software I use to run the weblog on this site, to the latest version. It’s been a couple of years since I upgraded so I was a little worried things wouldn’t go smoothly. And they didn’t, but I managed to recover before anyone was likely to notice. Anyway one of the side effects of this is that I’m turning comments back on, at least for the short term, as the update supposedly helps tremendously with comment spam. If you post a comment now you’ll have to wait for me to approve it for it to appear, which is a little frustrating I suppose but less frustrating than having to plow through 100 viagra and cialis spams to read the actual comments on the weblog.
I also spent 2 hours (!!!) cleaning out all the comment spam that was in the system since the newer movabletype provides a mechanism for more easily deleting unwanted comments. Hopefully legitimate comments remain but some might have fallen victim to me trying to wade through a lot of data as quickly as I could. So if you’re comment is gone, sorry. I did my best.
Dave's Place/Metamusing 
Just testing the comment system after the upgrade.
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Just testing the comment system after the upgrade.
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Just testing the comment system after the upgrade. And another test because the damned system needs a new template type which I do not yet have.
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i can help test too.
did you pay for the new MT? thats why i moved to wordpress. same comment approval system, plus a number of helpful plugins (baysian {sp?} filters and such) and its free to boot.
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No, you can still use MT for free, and I am using that version. I use wordpress at work and like it well enough but I have like 5 years of posts in MT and no easy way to migrate it to something else, wordpress or whatever, so for now it’s still the free version of mt for me.
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w00t!! Too bad you didn’t re-implement comments with the Soolin story a couple of posts down. But hey, not too late 😉
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