The process continues. A few notes:
* Thnaks to Mark L. for pointers that are helping solve some of the problems. However, they don't seem to be addressing problems with Typekey themselves, as it's refusing to send me a registration email. If anybody else has been able to become a registered user of Typekey, let me know-- and of course, please try to use it here, so I have a real registered commentor to test against.
* Secondly, I have discovered only after upgrading that MT-Blacklist is incompatible with the new version of Movable Type-- which means my spam inbox is going to be exploding shortly. Thanks heaps, SixApart-- I'm SO glad I paid you money.
Folks, if you can avoid upgrading, DON'T. If any representatives of SixApart would deign to contact me so that these niggling little problems can be worked out, feel free-- otherwise, I'm going to keep using the bully pulpit here.
* Finally, to the chap who prompted all of this in the first place: Dee, you better run. Peter was merely ticked at you; I'm now out for blood after having to spend hours cleaning up your messes. Disconnecting your Comcast account isn't going to be enough to hide-- I recommend moving.
UPDATE: If I didn't make it clear, when you post, clicking on Typekey should allow you to sign up so that you won't have to wait for your posts to be approved. So please do so, because otherwise who knows when your comments will go live.
FURTHER UPDATE (3:51 PM): Typekey has numerous reports of the confirmation emails being blocked as spam. So we're working with that as well. Joy.
Posted by Glenn Hauman at June 29, 2004 12:30 PM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingDo we know where Dee lives? If he lived anywhere in my neck of the woods, I'd be happy to join the hunt.
Testing 1 2 3.
Thanks for the advice Glenn. I've just started up a few blogs with MT-2.661 and didn't want to upgrade. Now I know I was right.
Joe
I'm good to go; I had to get in and out of TypeKey first, though, because I couldn't read the verification string.
Long time lurker, first time poster (I think). Nothing much to say , other than I'm a fan of Peter's work.
A shame you both have been put through the nonsense these past days and weeks. Hopefully this will make things better.
Just a few minutes with TypeKey registration, also. Piece of cake, quick.
This is a test.
2X 2L calling CQ. 2X 2 L calling CQ New York. Is there anyone on the air? Is there anyone? Is there anyone...??
I think Dee at one point said she lived in MA (hence the first time I noticed her ravings, being that I grew up in MA, and she claimed to know how aweful Kerry would be as president simply because she's from the same state).
Uh, Monkeys, I guess.
Just testing.
Registration that was easy. The only big difference is that from now on I'll be posting with the nickname I'm used to use in boards like Whedonesque, while I was used to use my real name to comment in here.
Wow...
I can't imagine the work involved with doing something like this.
Good luck Glenn, Peter, and whomever else might be involved.
-tpl
O.K, I've just gone through the typekey registration process. Let's see if this posts without difficulty.
"Hello! Hello, Earth. This is Captain John Black. Do you read me, Earth? The Martians are--"
Back again, not using Typekey this time, with a question. Is there a way we can _not_ have our E-Mail addresses show when we go in through Typekey? I don't mind giving it to Glenn or Peter for their records, but I get enough spam as it is, and don't want it out there for just anyone who reads the blog.
Rick
Just a lurker, but just in case you need to be registered in the future just to read the log. Best wishes to all.
Testing...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre...
The dude ditched his Comcast account to hide?? l00zer. Dude isn't even a conservative (holds up voter registration stamped Republican), he's just a yackass. He one day hopes to graduate to being a jackass. Anihilate.
Well, I just registered with typekey. I hope this "Dweeb" hunt is fun and short-lived.
I've got my bloodhound with me, and he's trained to kill. And he loves the smell of troll blood in the morning.
No problems with TypeKey.
Hey Glen (and Peter). If you have time to breathe at ShoreLeave, find me at the Philcon table. I'll buy ya both a drink and we can pin up one of Dee's posts on the bar dartboard if they have one...
Testing as well. Took a bit of time to get TypeKey to register me, but it seems to be working now.
KET
Goodness, I'm glad I don't have to jump through all these hoops with Blogger and Haloscan! :)
Well, that was a surprise; thanks to this new feature of PeterDavid.net I was just reminded that I'd already signed up at TypeKey. :)
Instead of dealing with all this stuff for comments why not just setup a smaller version of a message board like millarworld uses. It seems to work quite well.. when they don't forget to renue their domain. ;)
Testing again...okay, I think I'm getting the hang of this new deal now.
KET
No problem registering at TypeKey or signing in here. This is actually a lot easier (I s'pose you have to remember not to clear out your cookies, or you'll have to log in manually at TypeKey, correct?)
When I saw the last entry, I tried to post a question, "How do you like registered comments?" And then I saw the snafu and decided not to ask. Definitely something to remember if/when I upgrade, though I've no problems with TypeKey, when I have to use it on various sites. I'm eagerly waiting for the next version of Blacklist to come out. In addition to supporting 3.0, the plugin also offers a groups fuction, which sounds kinda neat.
Having been in charge of a forum myself in the past, I completely feel your pain, Glenn...Here's hoping you get it all taken care of quickly, so that you can try to forget this whole ugly mess.
Ground control to Major Tom?
I am Spartacus!
You can't handle the truth!
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Look, Daddy...Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
You talkin' to me?
Adrienne! Yo Adrienne!
Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
That concludes my test using notable film quotes. We now return Glenn to his regularly scheduled state of frustration. ;-)
This is all so sad but inevitable.
When a person opens a 'door' to anyone not every one appreciates the courage that act entails and instead of 'playing' nice they bring their 'demons' with them.
Well as the saying goes, some people bless a place when they arrive ... others when they leave. Or exiled, as it were.
Certainly this website is blessed now that Dee is gone.
So, Peter, how come you do not ask for comments on your newest issue of SOULSEARCHERS AND COMPANY?
Random quote I recall from "Q-Squared":
Thomas Ian Riker to Commander Picard: "I don't believe you were ever young. And did you ever have hair?!"
Note that this is only a test of the PAD logging in system typing (PAD-LIST). If this were an actual PAD-LIST, there would be some worthwhile comments. But this is a crappy post. Yipee ki yay.
Chris
Just want to see if I can get my email addy to show up...
Typekey's little test to make sure you're a person and not a bot is nice... except I could barely read the thing....
Just a comment.
Travis
Matt, how did you get your email to show up as a clickable link?
Okay after much ,frustration and profanity,this thing works.Sorry im not a computer genius.:)
This is not what I would have preferred but when morons like the Shrouded one i guess this was the only option.Shrouding would work with a esponsible rational human.The above mentioned person is obviously not that.Oh well ,for better or worse my idiocy can still be read on this blog
:)
I am not sure what a typeKey identity is but I am trying now to write something.
Unfortunately, I have seen this coming, also because at least one of the other boards I visit as well had similar problems. I hate it that a tiny minority (one person in this case, it seems!) is spoiling it for everybody else.
First of all I want to say "thank you" for all the work and effort you, Glenn, have done and are still doing to put this right.
May a thousand horny Ferengi suddenly find Dee attractive....
London calling (Well I'm sort of close to it, come on I've wanted to do that for ages!)
I'm in!!!
Registering was simple and easy for me, was I too lucky?
testing this thing, sorry it came to this, but hopefully this will straighten it out.
Now, hopefully they don't get desparate for some money and start selling all these email addys. (Not you and Peter, Glenn, but the TypeKey people)
jeff
It's fascinating to me seeing how history is able to repeat itself in various ways. First we appease Hitler by giving him the Rhineland, then a few years down the road Pearl Harbor gets bombed. Later we assume we're an impenetrable fortress, making O'Sama and Al Queda minimal threats, and we lose two skyscrapers. Now PAD decides to just ignore Dee and his copy/paste rants and gets bombed with a lewd, vicious attack against his family.
All of the above instances have resulted in someone being forced to toil long and hard afterward to get everything straightened out; WWII troops, Afghanistan troops, Glenn Hauman. The whole thing makes you really wonder if it wasn't a good idea go take a madman like Saddam out of power before he came after us (dot dot dot). Whether or not preventative maintenance could have avoided it all before, and what might have been were it not practiced in Iraq today.
Have we learned something today? Meh, probably not.
Just testing. Ah, I should say something else.
Two termites walk into a bar. One asked, "Is the bar tender here?"
It's weird. It wouldn't let me preview, just tossed me back to the comment box without me actually being logged in anymore. Just letting you know.
And so it comes to this.
:(
BTW: Did you see my post concerning either a virus or the AOL duplicator striking again?
Sincerely,
Lee Houston, Junior leehoustonjr@prodigy.net
I do NOT want my email address available to view to everybody. If PAD & Glenn want it, fine. But I don't want everybody else with it.
Please tell me this can be changed.
That only invites disaster from another idiot.
another test to see if my e-mail address goes away
I share your pain, in regards to SixApart's new systems. The MT pages that I still run remain (and will remain) at 2.661. All new journal-type pages that I've started up are now being run through Wordpress. Yeah...it was nice being able to log in once and access all the different journals on the same server that I use for different purposes, but I'll sacrifice that for a much more mod-friendly piece of software.
I wish I had something witty to write as my first registered post...
OK, now I'm signed up with typekey. Let's see if this works.
I had no trouble signing up, but it looks as though it signs me out after every comment. The screen is flickering, which is driving me crazy. Also, it is posting my real e-mail address. Not too thrilled about that for spam reasons.
Is Comcast one of the groups rejecting the e-mails as spam?
"Later we assume we're an impenetrable fortress, making O'Sama and Al Queda minimal threats, and we lose two skyscrapers."
O'Sama? So now we're linking al-Qaeda to the IRA? :)
Interesting set of glitches so far. Let's see if this works...
Sign-in doesn't seem to be working for me. It just relaods the comments page without actually logging me into an account. Any ideas?
i couldnt complete the damned registration process because no matter how many times i told them what was in the verification string they said i got it wrong so i guess i am doing it the long way
I ditched MT recently for the same reasons. I am now using PHPNuke, and it works great for my needs. www.phpnuke.org is the phpnuke website, http://www.oentalox.com/eglantine is my website using it. It's a Jacqueline Carey fansite, and you can disallow anonymous comments and the like, and ban people. It's very useful. Might want to give it a try.
Glenn: confirmation e-mail? As in, sent to me after I posted my initial test entry? I suppose I should check my logs, as it's possible my own filters dumped it as spam. They don't bother warning the sender. ;)
I like Ben Rosenberg's idea... there're some decent forum sites out there. It would allow for the posting of irreverence without necessarily dumping it into any of Peter's own threads. ;)
And Craig, it would appear that after the first instance, the e-mail address isn't linked. Even though even that first link could pose problems...
TypeKey works. But now a stupid question: Can't Dee or whatever also find a Typekey identity and continue to annoy?
Just testing. My first message seems to have fallen into a black hole.
OK, signed up for the whole TypeKey thing. I can live with that. Sorry it had to come to that, sure, but I understand.
Wow. I have to start grocery shopping for Shore Leave. Who all from here will be there (other than PAD)?
If youdon't want your email address displayed here, go to typekey.com, log in to access your account, and de-seleect the "send my email address" option checkbox. (I'm assuming it's OK if people do that, Glenn?)
I hardly ever post, but I would like to say to the person who mocked my "super-shrouding" suggestion... ha.
Trying this again. I thought I'd gotten through, but apparently not. And again, I make my own spam filters, so it's something I have to work out for myself. o.o
Oh, now that's bloody brilliant. I had attempted to use the Remember me? before, but it didn't work.
Only now, after the changes and going to TypeKey, it finally remembers me with the name & email address boxes.
Been told I can comment, so
Comment allez-vous?
(Did it work?)
I wish to let the thoughts in my mind be heard on your website.
Testing again. Typekey wasn't working a moment ago. Now it apparently is. Let's see.
Okay, I am now no longer a doofus. ^.^;
Please disperse. Nothing to see here...
I see that it's still posting my E-Mail address, even though I Do NOT have the "send E-Mail address" box checked. Does anyone know how this can be corrected so E-Mail addresses do not show unless we want them to?
Rick
O.K. That's weird. That second post didn't have my E-Mail address, while the one previous to it did. Which means this post will probably display my third grade report card.
Fun with technology.
Rick
Glenn,
FYI, SixApart released 3.1D that allows previews to function before posting. The upgrade is simple: copy the new MT scripts over the old ones and add a flag to the Comment Preview template. I just got it up and working on my site in the last few minutes.