Fighting with spam comments

Some people and sites do keep on writing comments that include web site urls. Generally fikirbaz.com receives aprox. 5 - 20 spam comments daily and it is not a big thing to delete them manually and rebuilding the related pages again.

Last weekend more than 150 spam comments were submited. Yesterday I wasted a lot of time to delete them all as I am too lazy to find out a better solution. But this morning I found more than 600 new spam comments and decided to work out a better solution and searched for it.

The first place I checked was Movable Type. From there I was linked to MT support forums page. I was expecting to find lots of bloggers with the same problem and bingo. In the commenting system headline I found my topic: Getting tired from the comment spams.

And here is the solution: MT-Blacklist

On the most basic level, MT-Blacklist is a general content filter. It can be used to enforce an obscenity policy or even for keeping an ex-girlfriend's name from ever appearing in the comments (these two things may in fact be considered synonymous), however when applied to the scourge of comment spam, it becomes a magnificent multi-layer line of defense.

The plugin's Search and De-spam feature also makes MT-Blacklist a powerful comment/trackback manager. It takes only two clicks of a button to wipe a massive spam attack completely off of your site and to bolster your defenses against future attacks.

I just installed MT-Blacklist. It was really easy to install and it took me just seconds to get rid of all the spam comments that were ever submitted to fikirbaz.com

And let me credit the guy behind MT-Blacklist: Jay Allen! Thanks a lot! :) (And also congratulations for winning the first prize in Six Apart's Developer's Contest with MT-Blacklist 2.0 )

Posted by Fikirbaz at August 3, 2004 09:46 AM

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