It's totally out of hand. The automatic posting of unsolicited and unpaid for links into blog comments is now too much of a problem to handle by hand. So, it is with pleasure that I announce that Jay Allen over at the Daily Journey has been working on an MT plug-in that will help to block comment spam (and as he hypothesized the not yet seen beast of trackback spam). I started using his MT template hack [now deprecated] a couple of days ago and it works, so I am looking forward to his promised Monday release of the new and improved plug-in. It all works with an blacklist of known comment spammer sites and stops the posting and previewing of comments which mention those sites in text or links. I plan to download and start using it immediately upon its promised release tomorrow.
[Addendum 10/14/03: Jay Allen has released the MT-Blacklist plug-in, and the comments look fabulous. I'm going to install it today.]
[Addendum 10/19/2003: Just installed MT-Blacklist plug-in this morning, tested it, and dropped my banned websites list into it. A breeze to install and use.]
Posted by jim at October 12, 2003 10:13 AM | TrackBack