Comment Spam
It has been bothering me recently that comment spam has kept messing around my site. One of such trolls disguises himself as a good-will poster saying good things like "Cool... a nice blog." Yeah, my blog must be nice since you could possibly lead the visitors here to your zip-code-what-the-heck-is-that site. I don't think you can, though. But even so, by doing so, you could get a good place in the Google search. Shit. One lolita keeps posting a bunch of nasty comments full of shitty links at a time. Heh, I disable HTML in my comments feature. Too bad for you, huh?
Well, it's a pain to delete all the garbage manually every morning.
I found this site offering a way to kill comment spam using a blacklist of spamming sites. It seems to work all right for now. Phew....
Comments
There's also this out now - http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/
- a full-fledged plugin for Movable Type (MT-Blacklist). Works well and an easy install.
Posted by: Jennifer | October 15, 2003 11:41 AM
Thanks for the link, Jennifer. :) Though the plugin sounds great, I can't use it now because of the "Storable.pm" problem. I think I have to live with the hack for the time being.
Posted by: Kiyo | October 15, 2003 11:05 PM
I never heard of comment spam before. I know there's people out there who just say nasty things to be a pain but I didn't know about spammers. People will find all kinds of ways to annoy you I guess.
Posted by: Jessica | October 16, 2003 6:33 AM
I've learnt that some people are idiots and I have my rant at them on my site, but they keep coming back for more.
I'm now at the same point as you Kiyo - deleting stuff every morning. I'll check out the link you've got there to be proactive, rather than reactive.
Posted by: Rae | October 16, 2003 7:48 AM
Yeah, there always are annoyances. You don't have to sit back.
Posted by: Kiyo | October 17, 2003 3:48 PM
Sorry to hear you're affected by spammers, too....hmm....maybe I'm a spammer, too, giving you all them crazy sites when your forums page was still UP.... hope not....
stay cool....
den4
Posted by: den4 | October 23, 2003 1:55 PM
Great site guys... Keep up the good work :)
Posted by: Mitch Bruke | May 13, 2004 12:27 AM