Getting a Little Tougher on Comment and Trackback Spam


Published on January 7, 2005 at 1:12 PM EST
Last updated on October 9, 2006 at 12:01 AM EST
In the Discussions category.

Over the past month or two, comment and Trackback spam has become a bigger issue for everybody. Six Apart even released the Guide to Comment Spam to help Movable Type users combat the problem. danandsherree.com hasn’t been left out of…

Over the past month or two, comment and Trackback spam has become a bigger issue for everybody. Six Apart even released the Guide to Comment Spam to help Movable Type users combat the problem.

danandsherree.com hasn’t been left out of the spam attacks. Today alone, MT-Blacklist has denied over 200 spams! A number of those, unfortunately, have gotten through—and not just today. For the past two weeks this site has gotten hammered daily. I’m getting tired of clicking “De-Spam” buttons.

So I added several Blacklist strings that have really helped. Strings like “poker,” “porn,” and “xxx,” to name just a few. (Many of the strings I added I’m not comfortable writing here.) Most comment and Trackback spam has at least one word or phrase I can add to the Blacklist without much concern that real comments will be denied.

I don’t know how helpful this will be for the long-term, but at least now it’s helping a lot.

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By jayseae , written on January 7, 2005 at 4:09 PM.

I don’t know what you’re looking for, exactly, but you might want to check out my MT-Approval plugin. It may help.

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By Joerg , written on January 9, 2005 at 9:01 AM.

Protect your comment-script against accesses from the outside using of htaccess.

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By Voland , written on June 10, 2007 at 11:14 AM.

Hi, just popped in here through a random link. Hi, firstly I’d like to say your site is great and very impressive. Enjoyed the reading.

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