Forum OpenACS Q&A: configure general-comments and administration

I set up OpenACS 5.2 and I'm having a problem of link spam on the blogger application, ie, people are using the comments feature to put irrelevant links on the site back to their site for the purpose of black hat search engine optimization.

On an older version of OpenACS on another site, I had to mount general-comments, it appeared in the site map and I could go to the /general-comments/admin/ to delete comments, ect.

On this version, it appears that general-comments is an unmounted application. I've spent an hour looking over the forums and surfing around the acs-admin, etc, trying to find out where to configure or administrate general-comments. It's not at all intuitive. The only things I've been able to find are a place to delete general-comments and it's in the package manager.

I'd like to remove the recent link spam and turn off general comments for users who are not logged in.

What am I missing?

Hi, thanks for the clue dave. I'm still unable to administer the comments in the blog. It appears to be calling comment-add from the blog instance, ie,

/blogger/comment-add

Although, when I click on add comments, I expect to get a form, but I get this error:

Bad URL

We are sorry. The URL /comment-add is in unrecognized format.

So I don't know how the link-spammers are getting around this bug. general-comments is not mounted in /blogger/.

Does this look like the the trackback feature? When I turn off trackback, nothing happens. How do I delete or administer this feature?

The three things I'm able to configure:

EnableAutoDiscoveryAndPing
[i] Enable auto-discovery and sending of trackback pings
EnableIncomingTrackback
[i] Enable incoming trackback
TrackbackMaxExcerpt

I set them all to 0 and the comments feature still seams turned on. I set NumberOfCommentsInIncludelet to 0 and the comments are still there, beneeth each blog entry and in the sidebar navigation.

Am I missing something in the admin or am I going to have to go to /packages/blogger with emacs and start ripping out pieces of code :-P

FYI, here's the blog:

http://fmallen.com/african_travel_news/

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General comments module seems to have a parameter... (AutoApproveComments {i} Sets wether comments go live immedeatly. Values are Y and f.) replacing the old interface. To bad because that function gave a perfect overview and a of possibly unwanted posted plus a revision option.

The current solution , if set to "f" should generate an email to a moderator (doesn't hapen), but more importantly flag the poster a message that the message is send in for review. (not available). Effectively this parameter seems pretty pointless. It would be great to have the old interface (5.1?) back.

Thanks

Ben