24Apr/05Off
Damn Spam
I've been having a *lot* of trouble recently with comment spammers round here. I've had waves of it before, but just recently it's been getting to the point of seriously annoying. I just had to delete 45 comments that appeared overnight, on top of the 20-odd from Friday and another 20-odd on Thursday, etc, etc.
I use MT Blacklist to try and keep the buggers down, and was starting to think that it was losing its effectiveness until I check the activity log and realised it's just that the spammers are moving slightly faster than the blacklisters. There are hundreds and hundreds of additional spam comments being blocked every single week.
Unreal.
April 25th, 2005 - 11:24
I had the same problem until I upgraded to the latest Movabletype release 3.15 – and subsequently the more integrated MT Blacklist application. Since then I have had maybe 1 or 2 spam messages getting through – compared to hundreds a month before.
There is also a new item on the market by Brad Choate that is certaintly worth investigating further.
April 25th, 2005 - 15:46
Similar experience to Eliza, to the extent that I’m even considering dropping comment moderation, at least at times when I’m never more than a few hours away from the computer.
May 2nd, 2005 - 18:35
the latest version of MT and the blacklist sorts the problem nicely