Blog Comment Spam Removal

mattwarden writes "The back-and-forth between spammers and mortals continues. Anyone with a MovableType blog that is even remotely on the map has no doubt been hammered lately with comment spam, comments made on entries by a script or program in an attempt to increase search engine page rankings. Prior to today, one had to manually delete each of these comments. No more! Jay Allen has developed a plugin for MovableType that removes these spam comments based on a blacklist (of both hostnames and regular expressions) and intercepts new spam comments before they are made. There's even a one-click link included in the comment notification email that makes it easy to de-spam your blog."

Comments

yay!

[croddy]

it's about time someone did to the weblogs what the bloggers are doing to the rest of the internet.

I, for one, welcome our new blog-spamming overlords.

send code to badgrammar123@hotmaill.com

[Anonymous Coward]

I was just thinking of such a filter for LiveJournal code-beggars this morning: anything that detected a mail adress containing digits should catch the majority of slackjawed monkeys.

Re:Well, that about says it all.

[Kalak]

/. seems to forget that *Slashdot is a blog.* Look for the definition of a blog, and you'll find /. fits. It's one of the most successful, is on steroids, and has gone commercial, but this is really Taco's blog and we are all just guests. /.ers not caring about blogs is kind of like a human that doesn't care about oxygen. It shows how pathetic many /.ers are, since they don't know the definition of what they're slamming (standard procedure around here).

I'm surprised the spammers don't hang out here...Oh wait, they just spam the articles instead of the comments.

"Mortals"?

[John Hasler]

> The back-and-forth between spammers and mortals
> continues.

I'm fairly sure spammers are mortal. If I ever catch one I'll find out for certain.