June 24, 2004 Bangkok, Thailand
I remember when I used to get a comment, it was actually from a reader. Now I only get spam. I get about 20 comments a day, advertising all sorts of dodgy products. And there is nothing I can do about it. There is software to block spam, but it all requires version 2.66 of Movabletype, my blogging software. I had never bothered to upgrade from version 1, since it was working fine. But now that I have a reason to upgrade, the makers have released a new version, and are charging for it. Version 2.66 is no longer available.
So the blogging community is abandoning Movabletype in droves, and the plug-in I need is not being updated to work with the new version.
About the only thing I can do is to totally turn off comments. Since I get so few real comments, this shouldn’t be a big deal. You could still send comments via email, since Yahoo! does an OK job of blocking the massive amounts of email spam this site generates.
WordPress is very nice :) I consider it better than MT, and comment spam is not a problem.
chris
(constant lurker)
yeah i get MT spam comments as well... but ive noticed that appear on real old posts. I never get spam on, say, the last 2 months. so i've given up deleting them.
Posted by: kevin on June 25, 2004 10:03 AMBUY HERBAL V!AGRA NOW!!!
Just kidding. I stopped comment spam on my site by renaming the comments.cgi file to spam_baffler.cgi and then changed all references to it in the templates (keep in mind that you have to change the preview templates and all others).
Posted by: mike on June 28, 2004 02:02 PMThanks for the tip, Mike. Let's see if that helps...
I'll turn off the annoying email requirment too, since that was a failed attempt to control spam.
Posted by: Terry on June 29, 2004 03:34 AM