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."

Oh well.

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I was going to write one of these for my couple of sites, but instead, I came to the conclusion that I'd be better off disabling comments.

The more I think about it, the less I think comments are actually, you know, useful in a personal web-space of any kind. Few of the comments I get at least are of any real value, other than to indicate that either (a) I'm being spammed again or (b) someone human is actually reading my site (for which I'm always grateful, although I have other ways to find that out anyway).