>> "I’m recently blogging in two German multi-author blogs, in case >> anyone’s interested: Die Pixelisten: http://www.pixelisten.de/ [...]"
I was interested Philipp, but unfortunately it seems that WordPress blog uses the braindead Bad Behavior anti-spam plugin, which dislikes AOL IPs and/or AOL proxy servers – and so I was blocked.
I'd have thought that 25 million AOL subscribers were a big enough group not to risk ensnaring with a big clumsy false positive generator, but apparently not. Oh well.
Yes, I could have bypassed the block using, for example, the Google Translate proxy (ah, the irony, since it's likely the Bad Behavior anti-proxy filter which objects to the AOL proxies).
No, I didn't report it to the email address given on the error page.
Too many hurdles to bother with, in both cases, I'm afraid.
How this kind of quasi-fascist reasoning :-
http://error.wordpress.com/2005/09/30/what-to-do-when-bad-behavior-blocks-you-or-your-friends/
... got so popular with bloggers presumably wanting to attract readers, is something of a mystery to me. Perhaps for some of the same reasons visual CAPTCHAs have: because any likely problem (false positives, in this case) will tend also to hamper the feedback loop. Spam goes down, blocked visitors mostly become invisible. |
Wow, that's bad. We'll fix that. And thanks. |
Thanks Philipp, works fine for me now. I just need to fix my German (Google Translate is almost useless for this purpose, it seems to me).
BTW, your new Ask ads don't seem to work in Opera 9 : can't enter a search topic; can't press Enter; can't even click through as if it were just a plain advert. The <noscript> alternative works as a plain click target, but it's all dead with JavaScript enabled.
They work okay for me in IE and FF.
Opera users are a tiny market, I appreciate ... I'm not complaining – just mentioning, while I noticed. |
I will forward your comments to FM -> Ask. I also told them they need to support hitting return, and that the input box text should be removed once clicked... |
Actually it works for me on Opera 9 Beta 2. I mean, I can see it, but I can't click it. But I'm sure the ad payment is based on the page views, not on the actual clicks.
The ad in Opera is different than the other ads. |
FM has different kinds of ads – some are running based on page views (e.g. "objective: 2 million views in 3 weeks"), some are runnig based on percentage (for example, Snap was running on 75%), and some are running flat (like Ask currently, if I understood it right). But of course, if an ad or ad zone won't get clicks it will be hard finding advertisers in the future, so actual visibility and click-thru rates are an important part of the ads. For the Ask campaign, I removed all other graphic ad zones from the right and bottom, which is why the Ask campaign started only after Snap was finished. |