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Re:Bad idea
I believe the 2004 olympics already tried that.
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MT-BlacklistI've been using MovableType as my blogging software for some time now, and Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin to block spam. Here are my stats since I installed version 2.04b on 8/19/2004:
MT-Blacklist Stats
I'm a low end blogger and 300MB a month of traffic is plenty for me. This service costs me about $60 a year and I hate that most of my time spent with it is cleaning up comment and trackback spam that went out before the clearinghouse was updated. I also recently started using the Nofollow plugin to stop search engine page ranks from counting links from my commenters.
Comment spams blocked: 7091
Comment spams moderated: 3864
Duplicates blocked: 8
Blacklist - Strings: 3039
Blacklist - URLPatterns: 33
Blacklist - Regexes: 24
Blacklist - FlexProtect: 0
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mt-blacklist
I tried renaming the comments script and it worked for a while, but spammers are smart enough to work around that. Lately I had been getting spam even a few minutes after renaming the script.
I installed mt-blaclist, which pretty much solved the problem for me. It allows you to search by regular expression and massively de-spam and blacklist the urls they point to. All subsequent comments containing those urls or other known spam expressions get trashed automatically. -
Re:SURBL
Ahh, the same principal as MT Blacklist. Good stuff, works half way descent and you're pretty much sure to not get a false possitive, unless...
From: Mom
Hi, honey, I just wanted to see how you were doing. We're doing great around here. Write back soon. I love you.
Do you yahoo? Enlarge your penis [penis-enlarge.com] today!
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Re:Yes... PLEASE...I guess your blog just hasn't been found yet. Is it known to Google?
Before I installed MT-Blacklist, I had over 130 comment spams on my site. Now I get at most a couple a day that get by MT-Blacklist, and these can easily be added to my blocked list.
For a while, I was getting over 100 blocked spam attempts from an IP address purportedly in Hungary.
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Six Apart responds
Today, Six Apart responded to the comments, making some changes based on feedback and clarified the things that they didn't communicate well.
I've written my feelings already: pre- and post-clarification
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Six Apart responds
Today, Six Apart responded to the comments, making some changes based on feedback and clarified the things that they didn't communicate well.
I've written my feelings already: pre- and post-clarification
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Sounds similar to MT-Blacklist pluginThis is similar to the MT-Blacklist MovableType Plugin. It features a central blacklist. The main difference is that it isn't real-time.
Perhaps these projects should work together. Is there an MovableType plugin that does real-time trackback and comment spam blocking? I wonder how difficult it would be to have the blacklist plugin for MovableType use the same technology.
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Already in use by MT-Blacklist
This exact method is the basis of the MT-Blacklist comment-spam prevention system for Movable Type-based blogs. It works wonderfully, as it identifies spam on the basis of the one feature it must have to be successful--a link back to the spammer's site.
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Re:Pharmacy Spam on Blogs, etc
Check out Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin and the Comment Spam Clearinghouse. The Master Blacklist is constantly updated and seems to be pretty effective...
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Re:Pharmacy Spam on Blogs, etc
Check out Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin and the Comment Spam Clearinghouse. The Master Blacklist is constantly updated and seems to be pretty effective...
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Re:Pharmacy Spam on Blogs, etc
Check out Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin and the Comment Spam Clearinghouse. The Master Blacklist is constantly updated and seems to be pretty effective...
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MovableType Blogs
It's becoming a rather large problem on MovableType blogs. Apparently, the spammed referrers are usually fake blogs, that are front sites to get a porn webcam link high in Google PageRank.
http://echo.ashpool.org/blog/305/
http://www.idly.org/2003/11/14/porn_sites_hiding_b ehind_blogs.php
http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/2003/11/alert _referral_spamming -
Re:I have a quick and dirty solution.There has been some discussion on this that I've seen on various blogs I read, and basically the concensus seems to be that people don't want to make the barrier to entry of submitting a comment harder (ie: accounts), as part of the beauty of blog comments is the spontinaity. Most people I've seen have either done some of the 7 tips for a spam free blog or are using the MT Blacklist plugin.
Once I installed the latter and did some of the former, I've had almost no spam, vs several hundred over a couple of days. Now whether that is testimony to how well the tips work or that the spammers are going in short bursts then taking breaks is still unknown. -
The article misses the point
The BBC article misses the point, as does a similar article in Wired. Seems the editors are more focused on name-dropping and doomsdaying than on focusing on some recent solutions. For example:
- Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist" plug-in;
- Simon Willison's Blacklisting Comment Spam;
- Scripty-goddess' Anti-Comment Spam Tactics;
- BurningBird's Comment Spam Quick Fix;
- Kalsey Consulting's ideas on dealing with Comment spam; or
- even my own observations and suggestions on the topic
Point is
Just so long as no one attempts to use a rather evil solution I discovered here on
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I have had problemsCouple of things for MoveableType users:
1) If you get flooded with spam just go directly into MySQL and issue a DELETE...WHERE query, it's really too much trouble to use the MT frontend to delete multiple comments.
2) Check out MT-Blacklist at http://www.jayallen.org/misc/projects/mt-blacklis
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Re:Sick the Lawyers on Them
Actually, a pack of Marlboros is about US$1.50 here. For that price, Hungarians could get some Americans to do their bidding... And no one wears Levis here (I know). This is Europe after all.... I've asked Wired if they need an on-site investigative reporter. No word back yet.