You know you’ve made it when you have to install MT-blacklist. I had misconfigured the bloggery here a little so that I wasn’t getting messages when comments were posted to the Changeling. I thought of this, as I was translating it, as a project for children: I imagined myself reading to a six-year-old boy.
It’s difficult to express the disgust and feeling of violation I had when I discovered, ten days ago, that some little scumbucket had posted 50 or more ads for the usual slime into the comments of this bedtime story.
So I found and installed MT-Blacklist, personalised the response to failed attempts to make it more offensive — “I hope you need all the products your selling” — and today discovered from the logs that it had beaten off 216 attempts to post crap so far this week. Thank you Jay Allen, busy man that you are.