Comment SPAM and Such
While I’m surprised that my barely-known blog would show up on any spammer hit list, I’ve gotten tired of manually going through all the comment spam. So I’ve done a little bit of research into what I can do to fix the problem and came up with two solutions that can be used in conjunction with each other: Spammer Tar Pit and Kitten’s Spam Words (check out Comment #11 in the latter to make a useful tweak).
The battle continues…
Update: Looks like Kitten’s Spam Word choked on something that I couldn’t really diagnose, so when I popped back to her site to trouble-shoot, I noticed her new Spaminator solution. Figured I would try that (as installation is a heckuva lot easier that trying to parse scripting language) and I’m happy to note that it’s working great.
the yucky thing about comment spam is that your blog doesn’t need to be very well traveled to be useful to spammers. the mere act of putting a link to their site up on yours helps bump them up in the Google standings (and possibly others; i stopped paying attention to other search engines a while ago). it doesn’t matter if nobody but the Google Robot ever sees the link.
Comment by mdpdb — 11/20/2004 @ 11:37 am