Typo Trackback Spam

Posted by paul
Monday, July 10, 2006 19:40:53 GMT

As some will have noticed, I am now aggregated by the ThoughtBlogs service… yay!

However, this (along with being linked to in other places) has meant that I’ve started receiving more spam TrackBacks than I can handle.

So, I started tapping away inside Typo’s administrative console to remove TrackBacks from every post, since none of them are valid.

Of course, this took far longer than was sensible so as a temporary fix, I removed them as follows (using Rails’ nifty `script/console`):

$ script/console
Loading development environment.
>> Trackback.find_all.length
=> 89
>> Trackback.find_all.each {|t| t.destroy}
...
>> Trackback.find_all.length
=> 0

Ah, much better.

Guess I’ll just have to keep an eye on things and clean as I go.

I’m also checking out the latest trunk revision for Typo (that according to Scott Laird) is nearing it’s 4.0 release which I look forward to using, most importantly, because a nasty memory leak that has apparently been quashed.

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  1. Piers Cawley – August 02, 2006 @ 11:20 PM
    I'm curious. Did you make the jump to 4.0.0? What did you think? I'm afraid the code's not quite at it's prettiest, 4.0.0 got released (and about damned time too) while I was sort of in the middle of rejigging things to make use of the State pattern so there's a bunch of structural code and other ugliness that are slowly getting put in appropriate places and (hopefully) given sensible name.s
  2. Paul Ingles – August 04, 2006 @ 11:29 AM
    Hi Piers, I am running on 4.0.0, and the trackback spam is much better (I'm guessing thats down to Akismet). I had a few comments blocked also which is good news. The actual release is good, I like the new admin interface, and there seems to be a bunch of more useful stuff. As for the code, I've not really looked through it that much yet. I'm working on a sidebar component, so that should give me a little more perspective on things :) I definitely liked the look of the [changes you made for Sidebars recently](http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/2006/04/16/write-your-own-typo-sidebar), although I never worked with the old sidebar code.