By and large, I've eschewed MT hacks. Not plug-ins, 'cause that's cool. But things that require me to go in and modify the MT code, and therefore repeat the mods every time MT gets update? Not for me, brother. As an erstwhile coder, I've always abhored doing that sort of thing.

Until I ran across this particular hack, which prevents duplicate comments. You know -- the ones that get added when someone clicks on Post twice, inadvertently or thinking that the first click didn't "take"? (Actually had that happen twice today on a single post.)

(That's not altogether true, since one of those dupe comments corrected a typo.)

The hack confirms that the name, mail, URL, and comment text are identical with an existing comment; if so, it aborts the save.

Now that's useful enough to warrent the bother of updating the source code when I upgrade. Now if we can just get the Trotts to incorporate that into the real code ...

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Where'd you get that title from? At first I thought it was Victor Buono as King Tut, but that was "Some sort of a delayed echo in here."

I have a recollection of Hans Conreid saying it (perhaps as Uncle Waldo on Hoppity Hooper).