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Comment Spam, update III

Philipp Keller — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:27:41 +0000

On my “recent” two entries about comment spam I stated the actions I wanted to take against the comment spam.
The solution, at the moment:

Changed the position of my comment-script (as suggested). Resulting to that actionIn the last two months I had 47 error hits (404) on /mt/mt-comments.cgi. That means that this action prevented 47 spams
Installed Brad Choates MTDSBL Plugin. Since this plugin deletes comments coming from not trustworthy ips (that is: open proxies), I don’t have statistic info on that.
Installed Jay Allens MT-Blacklist. And this plugin finally saves my days:

Of the over 500 comment spams, 60 comments have been moderated because they contain too many links, I had to “despam” them (updates sent to the central MT-Blacklist server). On the first days, I had to despam quite a few comments but in the last two weeks, just one comment-spam wave hit me. About 3 comments finally came “through” so they appeared on my page.

So, in the end, I am content with these three techniques working together. Ok, I have to admit that I rather have any comments on my sites (3 so far) so the best action would have been to block all comments :-)

Comment Spam, update II

Philipp Keller — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:27:44 +0000

Still in battle to fight my comment spam. See my previous posts on that subject.
The movable type plugin from Brad Choate did just half the work. Interestingly it just blocked half the spams. After each non-approved spam, the spammer sent another spam through a non-blacklisted relay.. :-) In a way fighting this is fun, but in a way I’d like to do more serious things!

I now installed Jay Allens MT-Blacklist and it looks promising. It also fights trackback pings and since trackback ping spamming hits me since yesterday, I’m looking quite forward to see this movabletype-blacklist-plugin doing some good work.

Comment Spam, update I

Philipp Keller — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:30:34 +0000

This is an update of my previous link-spammer-entry.

Since renaming the comment-script-filename doesn’t really do it (well, in a way I expected that), I installed Brad Choates MT-DSBL Movable Type plugin (very very easy to install). It seems to work since I tested to add a comment via anonymizer (a free anonymizer proxy) and the comment is set for moderation now..

P.S: There has been set up a domain&website for anti-nofollow enthusiast!

Link Spammers – history so far

Philipp Keller — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:46:02 +0000

Interesting things are going on. Since link spammers put comments on Blogs and get higher google rankings, google told us that you can put a rel=”nofollow” to the links posted in weblog comments. Well, Sixapart (producer of Movabletype) supports the idea among other companies that produce weblogs.
Sure, many people from the xhtml-front think that this isn’t a good idea (are you surprised of that?), but nontheless there are some quite good comments on that.
Well, I’ve got comment spam too (who has not) and I think that it is enought to just change the position of the comment script. Anyone has experience if that helps?