How to make Gallery commenting less frustrating?

prwood

Joined: 2003-11-11
Posts: 57
Posted: Mon, 2008-04-28 02:21

Greetings,

I'm running Gallery 2.2.4 with a fairly plain vanilla install. I do have the Captcha module set up to require Captcha for pretty much everything it can be used on. I have commenting set up so that anybody can leave comments for photos, as long as they pass the captcha. However, I still find the Gallery commenting system frustrating to use. I have a few questions regarding things that would make Gallery's commenting system less frustrating to me, and I'm hoping someone can provide a useful answer:

1) Is there a way for me to receive an email any time someone leaves a comment? Alternatively, is there a way to get a single RSS feed of all comments across all photos and albums?
2) Is there a better Captcha implementation for Gallery? The default Captcha system seems to have already been cracked, and I get tons of spam comments.
3) Are there any spam-blocking modules for Gallery? I'm thinking something along the lines of the way Akisment works in Wordpress, checking IP addresses against databases of known spammers.

I'd appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!


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prwood

Joined: 2003-11-11
Posts: 57
Posted: Mon, 2008-04-28 02:24
prwood wrote:
Greetings,

1) Is there a way for me to receive an email any time someone leaves a comment? Alternatively, is there a way to get a single RSS feed of all comments across all photos and albums?
2) Is there a better Captcha implementation for Gallery? The default Captcha system seems to have already been cracked, and I get tons of spam comments.
3) Are there any spam-blocking modules for Gallery? I'm thinking something along the lines of the way Akisment works in Wordpress, checking IP addresses against databases of known spammers.

One more:
4) Is there a way to perform batch operations on multiple comments? For example if a single photo has 25 spam comments and one legit comment, is there a way to select all of the spam comments and delete them at once? Right now it takes three clicks to delete a single spam comment and get back to the list of comments (click delete, confirm, click to go back to photo, repeat for next comment).
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prwood

Joined: 2003-11-11
Posts: 57
Posted: Mon, 2008-04-28 02:27

Also, I realize that requiring users to be registered is one way around spam commenting, but I have found that registering to post a comment is a pretty big barrier for many of the legitimate commenters on my Gallery, so I'd rather not make that a requirement.
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floridave
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Joined: 2003-12-22
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Posted: Mon, 2008-04-28 02:43

There is a notification module. Don't know if it sends a email for each comment.
G2.3 will have http://akismet.com/ a good automated spam catcher. It also has a interface to check current comments.

Dave
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WVOz1970

Joined: 2005-01-28
Posts: 11
Posted: Wed, 2008-05-07 15:34
floridave wrote:
G2.3 will have http://akismet.com/ a good automated spam catcher. It also has a interface to check current comments.

I am so glad to hear this! I would love to turn commenting back on. Akismet does a fantastic job on my Wordpress installation. I guess I should start looking for betas!!
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