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."

Well, that about says it all.

[The Fink]

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.

Suspicions confirmed.

[Kyrthira]

I knew there was a reason I liked LiveJournal [livejournal.com]. 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.

Scriptygoddess talks about this

[ChipMonk]

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