August 10, 2004
Losing the thread
So I've been thinking about comment spam some more, and getting steadily more fed up with it. So much so, that I've enabled MT-blacklist as a spam blocker, as well as as a cleanup tool. The downsides to this, which I feel I ought to mention, are twofold:
- Replies to comments will no longer thread properly, they'll just appear as "root" comments. The subject element in the form should still pick up the subject of the previous comment, though, so all is not entirely lost...
- It's possible your comments might get rejected by the filter. Don't take it personally, just try taking out any dodgy looking URLs and posting again, or something. I'm sure I'm sorry for the inconvenience really, but it's far less than the inconvenience to me of having to close posts for commenting after a few weeks, or else spend my evenings deleting dozens of spammish comments.
Alas, once again I find myself with nothing more interesting to say. Ho hum...
Posted by James at 23:17
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I'm sure renaming the comment CGI to something obscure/random ought to help. I've been meaning to do this on my site but haven't got round to it yet.
Posted by: Dominic at August 11, 2004 02:19 AM
I did that and it worked for a while, but no more.
Posted by: Joe at August 11, 2004 09:39 AM
I got round to doing this; no idea if it's helping, but it can't be doing any harm...
Posted by: James at August 22, 2004 01:03 AM