September 7, 2004
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:comment spam alert
You may want to add s**glory.com and any of its many subdomains to your blacklist now. This one leaves comments about a yard long.
As ever, you can find our blacklist here.
Ah, maintenance.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at September 7, 2004 6:04 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksDon't click the link at work. It will slaughter your filters. I just got chastised by the network guys.
Just what do these sh*theels think they're accomplishing, anyway? "Hey, this guy just left 30 spam comments on my site! I think I'll go buy some herbal cialis from him!"
Does it get them search engine hits if we leave them on? Do they get search hits from the blacklist?
Oh, and have you seen their latest trick? Adding valuable URL's to their comments so you can't just group add all URL's to your blacklist.
Ack.
Brian: Yes, it's all about Google rankings. They don't care if anyone ever reads the comments.
Assuming you don't have too many blind commentators, you could try using James Seng's scode/'captcha' plugin. This is the one that forces commentors to type a number sequence displayed within an image in order to post. Samizdata is the highest-profile blog that I've seen use the plugin. Personally I haven't received a *single* comment spam since sticking it on my blog about six months ago. The cockles of my heart are warmed by all the failed spam attempts I see in my logfiles.
If accessibility is an issue, he also wrote a Bayesian filter that presumably you could use in addition to MT-Blacklist. (Bayesian filters are the ones that get "trained" to recognize your blog comments vs. random spam).
Yours truly,
Jeffrey Boulier
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