Tarazet

May 12, 2004

Spam Comments

I had to spend a chunk of time this morning deleting spam comments for drugs this morning. All I can do is ban the IP address but new ones appear almost every day. Do other MT users suffer this problem?

Posted by Jeff Soyer at May 12, 2004 07:45 AM
Comments

You might try installing MT-Blacklist. It helps--it's not perfect, but it helps. It keeps track of known spam servers, and allows you to block comments that contain key words, like viagra, that you specify. I believe Keven Aylward at Wizbang helped write it.

Posted by: Victor at May 12, 2004 10:15 AM

There is also a plug-in for MT that closes the comments out after a set period of time. I forget the name of it but between blacklist and the comment closing one my spam problems were eleminated.

Posted by: Sarpy Sam at May 12, 2004 04:32 PM
Note: Comments close down after 7 days.