Comments on: Bad Behavior Misbehavin’? http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Make You Go Hmm: » WP plugin Bad Behavior and Techmeme bot conflict resolution http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/comment-page-1/#comment-21411 Make You Go Hmm: » WP plugin Bad Behavior and Techmeme bot conflict resolution Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:56:43 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/#comment-21411 [...] Tom Raftery had the same problem as I and wrote about it in August 2006 prompting a somewhat heated discussion in the comments between the Techmeme and the Bad Behavior plugin developers. I don’t know if this is the exact issue for Thatedeguy but it was for Tom and I. Chris Messina also had the same problem. [...]

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/comment-page-1/#comment-15041 Michael Hampton Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:55:28 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/#comment-15041 I have been hoping it gets fixed ever since I found out about the problem, but it’s up to Gabe to fix his bot.

]]> By: Chris Messina http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/comment-page-1/#comment-15038 Chris Messina Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:29:17 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/#comment-15038 Hey Michael, sorry about not contact you directly before posting — I talked to Gabe because I wasn’t showing up in TechMeme and didn’t know why. I didn’t think that Bad Behavior was related until he told me otherwise. And with Tom’s post, it seemed useful to post about the issue for the benefit of others — I’m not faulting your code or Gabe’s — I don’t know where the problem truly lies — my only concern is with the ultimate effect, which, I hope somehow gets fixed (not being much of a developer, I’m not in the position to fix it myself either).

As for Tom — sorry, didn’t realize the entirety of your reasoning.

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/comment-page-1/#comment-15015 Tom Raftery Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:47:29 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/#comment-15015 Chris,

Getting on TechMeme wasn’t the only reason why I have disabled the plugin. I was also concerned by some of the comments of the comment author tbh.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/comment-page-1/#comment-15010 Michael Hampton Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:31:28 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/#comment-15010 By the way, the problem with the Google Wireless Transcoder being blocked took all of two minutes to fix. It would have been fixed much sooner had you actually contacted me to report the problem.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/comment-page-1/#comment-15009 Michael Hampton Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:25:48 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/28/bad-behavior-misbehavin/#comment-15009 You know, as a point of etiquette, it’s usually a good idea to contact the author of a piece of software when you’re having a problem with it, when it’s possible to do so.

(Obviously this doesn’t apply to Microsoft software…but I digress.)

As for TechMeme, Gabe’s bot is generating bad requests (HTTP 400) and I have no idea why, as the affected user didn’t send me any log entries. This is apparently a different coding problem with his bot than the previous coding problem which got it blocked by Bad Behavior (and which I’m led to believe has been fixed).

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