In the hope that it will reduce the current waves of comment spam that I’m receiving, I’ve turned off comments for all entries published prior to January 2009, plus a few published in 2009 that seem to be particular targets. Movable Type doesn’t expose a suitable interface for this so it was done directly using SQL (some scripts may exist but I don’t know if they will still work in MT 4.3x). None of the entries that were closed had received any legitimate comments for some time anyway.
Seeing as it’s a lovely sunny day, Christine and I are off for a day out in Morecambe. I haven’t been there since I was 11 so it’ll be nice to see how it’s changed over the past few years.
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June 19, 2010 at 20:46
I do this too. I wrote a quick script to do it from cron. Have a peek here for mt-close-comments http:// kevinspencer.org/code