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Blog Comment Spam Removal

Posted by timothy on from the smile-and-reload dept.

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."

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  1. Well, that about says it all. by The+Fink · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A front page slashdot article with a grand total of eight comments.

    Shows what the average slashdotter thinks of "blogging"... can't say I'm surprised (and not in a negative way).

    I wonder, if the term "blog" and derivatives (which I personally detest, but that's another matter for another forum...), put people off - if it had been omitted, I wonder if more people would have read and commented.

  2. Suspicions confirmed. by Kyrthira · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I knew there was a reason I liked LiveJournal. Lots of the fun, not so much of the hassle. (Just some drama-llama stuff now'n then.) I say it's worth the $25/year for a paid account. I gave up on blogs/guestbooks on my websites long ago, because all I'd get was spam; either for the purposes listed in the article, or for some bloody pr0n site or another.

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    ~Kyrthira Phelan~
  3. Scriptygoddess talks about this by ChipMonk · · Score: 1, Insightful

    She has an entire entry about comment spam, and what to do about it. For myself, I installed her Comment Queue Script/MT Hack. Works like a charm.