Like many other Moveable Type weblog owners I have been suffering from a recent onslaught of automated, offensive ads for porn posted as comments to messages. Jay Allen has just produced a “spam blocking tool for Moveable Type”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ which should help some – I fear this is not a final solution to the problem but merely the start of a depressing “arms race” between spammers and weblog users which may substantially reduce the usefulness of weblogs for everyone. In a way I am surprised this took this long to happen, people being what they are.
P.S. I apologise in advance if you accidentally stumble across any offensive links in comments – it will take me a while to get around to deleting all of them because at least for the moment there is no easy way for me to bulk-delete comments.
mt-blacklist is now installed on blog.org… we’ll see if it makes a difference. I’ve also installed a locking protocol for comments, so that evil comment spammers won’t take the server down like they did on Saturday (See http://blog.cfrq.net/chk/archives/000469.html).
Comment by Harald — 14 October 2003 @ 11:08 pm
Well, you will not have to deal with this once the new MT 3.0 comes out. Until then, just do what I do and mass-prune.
Comment by Northwestern Mutual — 24 January 2004 @ 3:10 pm