New Comment System
I've just installed a new comment system for MMOROG, using a Wordpress <--> MyBB bridge.
The plan is to migrate comments over to my forums @ Left Hand Path. I'm hoping this will put a stop to comment spam (I weed through it daily here) and reduce trolling, by requiring registration on the forums for commenting. It should also let me integrate some cross-traffic between my sites via centralized forums.
For the moment, old posts will remain on the old Wordpress comment system. I may change that later, but there are certain posts where I do not wish to disrupt conversations in place.
This change may bork pingbacks and trackbacks, but honestly the value of those has degraded significantly from spam and link farming exploits. I'm not sure if RSS will be affected, but I'm far more supportive of web-browsers than feed readers anyway.
Eventually I'll make a matching theme and try to autodetect visitors via MMOROG so the look and feel stays consistent.
Oct 8, 2007 10:56am
Testing a reply, but I might as well make a few more useful notes while I'm at it:
I'm aware that forum registrations will likely reduce my blog's comments overall. The noise ratio from anonymous comments and spam is just so great at this point, it was either do this or cut off comments altogether (something I've seen many popular blogs do recently).
Replies are shown inline on blog articles, but posting a new reply is not. Although the WP-to-MyBB bridge plugin supports that, it works only if they are on the same domain. I could probably hack at it to work anyway, but I decided I like the idea of users going to the forums site itself in order to comment.
Oct 9, 2007 10:22am
Words, phrases, and acronyms that I don't comprehend.
Oct 9, 2007 11:15am
bork = mess up
pingbacks = a system for web authors to know when others i=link to their articles
trackbacks = similar to pingbacks but more prone to spam
RSS = Really Simple Syndacation, it creates an automated news feed for a particular web site
feed readers = people who read RSS feads instead of the web site proper (i am assuming here from context).
Oct 9, 2007 4:23pm
Pretty close Taek.
To clarify: I can probably fix the Pingback and Trackback reporting on the blog, but I'm not sure if I want to, since lately I've been getting a lot of automated Pingback spam via gold selling website with Pingback link farms (they use my RSS feeds to detect new posts, I get the Pingbacks moments after each article is written). I can see who's legitimately linking to my blog easily enough on my own, I'm just not sure of the value of attaching that info to the articles when it's always going to be exploitable.
For RSS, the feeds aren't really broken, they're just inconsistent (blog feed, old-comments feed, forums feed). I think I'll just leave those as-is.
On another topic: I'd been holding back some articles for MMOROG until I got the new comments-to-forums bridge working, so now I'm about to open the floodgates. Expect a flurry of posts. =)
Dec 18, 2007 4:44pm
Ahh this post is pretty moot now, since I'm ditching the whole MyBB <--> Wordpress bridge thing in favour of an all-in-one solution with Drupal.
Sooooo, we kinda have an even newer comment system. I'm gonna spiffy it up and tweak it somewhat shortly.
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