Comments on: fighting movable type comment spam – part 1

By: Kriston

Kriston — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:13:54 +0000

Great, I get an F. How did I know my site was going to come up in Tom’s examples of what not to do?
Fortunately, my host has taken to disabling G.p periodically, which, admittedly, cuts down on comment spam.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:56:56 +0000

Okay, I’ll try to write a part 1.5 that talks about how to use these suggestions more in a more practical manner.
And yes: if you install a captcha plugin, it’ll be one of the most effective things you can do to fight spam. But personally, I’d like to implement whatever solutions I can that don’t inconvenience the user first. That’s not to say that captchas are bad, just that it’s a good idea to exhaust the other options first.

By: leafblower

leafblower — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:31:47 +0000

Let me second Jeff’s “this is cool and oh so useful but I have no idea how to do it” sentiment.
This is very timely for me, I’ve been getting hammered the last few weeks.
Would using a captcha work?

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:22:58 +0000

Seriously, though… if one wanted to implement that code, where exactly should it be copied and pasted? I really appreciate your attempts to inform your less tech-inclined readers, but I’m still going to need this dumbed down another notch or too.
And how do we adapt it to trackbacks?

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:19:57 +0000

Great site. Thanks.