December 09, 2004
Comment spam
Every blogger is inundated with comment spam. Jay Allen's MTBlacklist works pretty well. But, it is a lot of work to update the blacklist all the time with new spam that gets through the filter.
I decided to implement a new method to stop automated spam with a plugin called SCode. It adds a verification procedure on the comment page. It is similar to the verification process used by Yahoo when you open a new account. It makes sure that a person is inputing the information and not a bot.
aNYa wrote a post about another plugin that he installed to fight spam on his blog. If the SCode plugin isn't enough to stop the spam, I'll install this additional plugin that aNYa posted about.
You spammers, burn in hell or a place of your choice!!! But, you must burn.
Posted by Parag at December 9, 2004 10:43 AM
SCode working ;-)
Posted by: anya at December 9, 2004 03:55 PMI just noticed that you still have the default file name for your comments page.....mt-comments.cgi. Try renaming that file to an random name and in your mt.cfg, modify to commentsfilename appropriately. It really cuts it down dramatically
Posted by: Raj at December 16, 2004 07:17 AMBe careful, SCode is easily defeated by bots.
Sam.
