Trackback Posts and comment removals

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Trackback Posts and comment removals

I have a simple web log tool setup using 10.4.7 on my school network and public website. The problem I have is that all sorts of spam and **** sites end up leaving trackback links and adds that I can't remove without removing the whole discussion thread.

1-How can I keep these offensive trackbacks from showing up to being with?

2-How do I remove individual comments/trackbacks instead of removing the entire thread?

Dual G5, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Sep 19, 2006 1:13 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 25, 2006 2:49 PM in response to Randall Nielsen

Must be a really dead forum....I guess no one is really using this feature.

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Answer 2

Sep 26, 2006 6:36 PM in response to Randall Nielsen

Randall,
Our school just today found two blogs with pr0n infested trackbacks. The only thing that I was able to do was to manually delete the trackbacks from /Library/Application Support/Weblogs/username/.trackbacks/ blogentry and then I enabled the admin console as described here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060407155752996

Next I turned off trackbacks. This stops the spam, but now no trackbacks. I'm looking for someone to hopefully tell me how to turn off ALL trackbacks to ALL blogs before any more of our 1000+ user's blogs get attacked with pr0n spam.
Thank you in advance.
Chris

P.S. I had to type pr0n. It seems Apple edits out the word p0r|\|
MacBook 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM

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Answer 3

Sep 29, 2006 8:28 AM in response to Chris Hamady

Thanks for the instructions to the Blojsom Admin tools. You can turn off comments, trackbacks, and even set up comment moderation etc.

As far as creating thousands of blogs, you might want to have a staff member keep track of blog usernames and passwords to start with so you or your staff can perform the admin tasks like cleaning up trackbacks and comments etc.

You should also look to Moodle, another open source material. Teachers can actually use this to put their entire course content (watch out for copyright violations!!) online for their classes along with discussion themes etc.

Reminds me of my BBS days and WildCat Software!!! (just shows my age as well)

Thanks again

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Answer 4

Oct 30, 2006 8:06 AM in response to Chris Hamady

Immediately after setting up a new blog, I go into the blog.properties file and edit it. You can edit all kinds of stuff there and trackbacks and comments can be turned off just by changing a value.

/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/yourblogname/blog.properties

edit the file with vi or emacs if you can. any plain text editor will do. You'll probably have to sudo to do it.

I don't think there is really much reason to DELETE the individual trackbacks or comments, just turn them off.

I'd love to know if Apple's version of the blojsom server can use plug-ins and (if so) which ones people are using without breaking anything. A capcha before commenting would be useful.

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