I've upgraded to MT 3.something and, in my neverending battle against comment and trackback spam, I have made a few changes in the Comments department.

First, the comments will be subject to my approval, so please don't panic if your comments don't publish instantly like they used to. Second, you can't use words like "viagra" and "teens" anymore, sorry. Those words are blacklisted. Third, you'll need an email address to post a comment.

Also, I've closed all commenting for posts 21 days or older. So, I guess if you want to say something, say something, er, within three weeks of the post. (That should stop all the flaming emails I get from those hard core Ruffa fans.)

Finally, and this is more of a kink rather than a change, MT Blacklist has a difficult time recognizing tagalog words (damn!) and, thus, has a tendency to treat it as spam. If you have any such problems when entering your comments, please let me know, or try revising accordingly. I have spent way too much time fighting comment spam (I almost wanted to just stop blogging) that these small inconveniences are necessary and hopefully worthwhile.

Thank you.

P.S. How are the rest of you doing with spam? I'm using Blacklist and Spamlookup, but the new Blacklist doesn't de-spam all your comments automatically (plus it has a hard time with Tagalog). I thought of getting commenters to register, but that's too much work for you guys.