MT-Blacklist: Fighting Comment Spam
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There’s been a significant increase in the amount of comment spam here recently. It’s annoying enough to require action — but what should that be? I don’t want to create a registration system and I don’t want to queue comments for approval (I don’t even have time to read the ones that are getting posted recently).
The redoubtable Jay Allen has been giving this problem a little thought, shall we say, and has written MT-Blacklist which I just downloaded and am about to install. Quite an impressive feature list this thing has! Let’s give it a whirl.
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Posted to The Good • 2003.10.14 (Tue) • 10:10
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Posted by James 2003.10.14, 10:47
Some good tips for implementing blogspam protection over at:
http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000849.html
Posted by jh 2003.10.14, 11:01
This is a test of a link that’s been bothering me lately (don’t click on that!). Let’s see what happens.
Posted by James 2003.10.14, 11:41
Posted by jh 2003.10.14, 12:17
James —-
Brings back memories! I made that carrot cake on my 21st birthday, 15 years ago. That was a great party.
I don’t think my mother ever tried the carrot cake, but I’m sure she would have, given the chance. She makes the best carrot cake I’ve ever had as a matter of fact, so as to what she would say to mine, well, she would probably want to know whether I got the cream cheese icing right (I didn’t bother with it for the cake in question).
Posted by James 2003.10.14, 12:45
Carrot cake without cream cheese icing! That’s sacrilegious!
Sorry to hijack your post, btw.
Posted by Mr. X 2003.10.15, 02:08
Thanks for the links (MT-Blacklist and cake ;) I got some ad for some porn site in my comments section the other day… I can’t understand why anyone would do that. The blogosphere (made that word up, I think…) is pretty geeky in nature and people hanging there are more web-savvy than anywhere else, they won’t click on spam. Don’t spammers know that?
Posted by jh 2003.10.15, 10:42
Mr. X —-
> they won’t click on spam. Don’t spammers know that?
I don’t think it’s about click-throughs but about positioning the spammer’s site higher in Google’s ranking. By posting links to sites, the spammers hope to make it appear that many sites are linking to them, thus raising their standing in the page-rank algorithm.
MT-Blacklist seems to be a fantastic piece of work, by the way. I’ll try to post more about it once it’s had a good workout.
Posted by riccard0 2003.10.17, 05:12
It seems that others have similar problems, but different solutions.
Posted by itunes download 2004.09.09, 02:21
You know, I totally disagree with you. Just off the mark!
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