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January 20, 2005

com-spam defences

I've been doing some reading up on comments spam. All I've done is fill my brain up and make it hurt -ow.

Item one: Google invent a whole new rel="nofollow" tag to hopefully cripple those Spammers who are whoring after links ranking in search engines.

(which means for us MT users to wait for some sort an uprade (groan).)

(Rakka put me on to this.)

Item two: Moveable Type have a whole huge enormous guide on preventing it. (Which I've no doubt comment spammers themselves are reading carefully and learning from.

Then there's comment throttling plug-ins and MT blacklist to consider.

Posted by groc on January 20, 2005 10:06 PM

Comments

I'm not doing too badly on Movable Type spam at the moment. I seem to run at exactly three comments a day at the moment - and all seem to be posted at exactly the same time.
I might well read the Movable Type guide - one day...

wibbled by: Dave at January 20, 2005 10:27 PM

I've finally put my method down on the blog:

http://peteashton.com/05/01/21/killing_comment_spam.html

I'm getting hundreds a day and none of them are getting onto the site. Hope it's useful!

Pete

wibbled by: Pete Ashton at January 21, 2005 03:11 AM