Blog Comment Spam Removal 27
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."
Image based password (Score:3, Informative)
based passwords. Basically, they are images with some text with a lot of wavy lines
and the assumption is that it is hard for programs to do an OCR on them, but easy for
humans to read and understand the text.
Just make the bloggers read and re-enter the text in the slightly-obfuscated images before they
can enter their comments. If they spent atleast a few minutes composing their article
it should not be to hard to type in a few more letters to be allowed to post.