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

Suspicions confirmed.

[Kyrthira]

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.

"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.