Well, it looks like some of the forex folks’ scripts learned how to fill out the SK2 captcha fallback, so if you were watching my comments feed this afternoon, you probably saw quite a few of those come through.
I took that as a reminder to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: fix the SK2 akismet plugin.
The way the plugin normally works is it checks a comment against akismet and adds points to the karma score if akismet says it’s good, and subtracts points if akismet says it’s bad. Then, if it gets false positives or negatives and you correct them, it sends back your corrections to akismet. The first problem I had to fix involved disabling the feedback sent back to akismet, because there were so many false negatives (spam comments that akismet said were OK) that it was trying to post back a lot of corrections to akismet. This is dangerous, because akismet will block your API key if they determine you are posting too many corrections to their system.
After I did this, I still had to deal with the numerous false negatives bumping the karma scores up too often, so I eventually disabled it altogether. Tonight I decided to go back and just adjust it so that it only takes points away for comments akismet flags as spam, but does not add points for ones that it says are OK. I’ve done that now, and we’ll see how it goes.
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Where is your tagboard? And post about that theme switcher, I hate it.
I did post about the theme switcher widget a couple days ago. What don’t you like about it? You don’t have to use it if you don’t want to…
I really never liked the tagboard, so I took it off. I’ll probably bring it back once I get around to rewriting it the way I want to.
I can;t even get the tagboard to work. I don’t know why since I deleted all of the tables it uses, it just says “no Access…”. Not a big deal since noone uses it anyways.
Yeah, I never tested it in 2.1, which is one reason I took the link down until the rewrite.