Adam Kalsey of Pheedo volunteered to help me through my recent MovableType upgrade spasm. Comments were showing up in the “pending approval” pile even though I’d configured MT to not require moderation. He talked me through installing the upgrade to MT-Blacklist (Jay Allen’s commentspam-fightin’ superhero). When that didn’t do the trick, Adam figured out that although I’d renamed the old MT-Blacklist files, I hadn’t renamed the extensions; MT was still loading mt_blacklist_old.pl because it loads anything with a .pl extension. Thus, MT was using a version of Blacklist that didn’t know about moderation, screwing up MT. I deleted the old Blacklist files and now my blog accepts comments.

Thank you, Adam, for your time and your expertise. And it was great to have a chance to talk with you outside of a textbox.

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