Even with MT-Blacklist, the amount of time I have had to spend dealing with comment spam has been annoying lately, and apparently I am not the only one who's having issues.
I am trying to decide how to manage the problem. SixApart says they are working on a solution but apparently it will involve upgrading my installation of MT and of MT-Blacklist. That's a fair chunk of work on my part because moving off 2.x will entail not only the upgrade but a bunch of hours tweaking templates to put my customizations back in, and I am a little pressed for time these days.
I may try to implement the system Pandagon uses for its comments section, which is a patch that generates a random 6 digit number and requires users to type it in before a comment will be posted.
I can, of course, just turn off commenting entirely, but I really don't want to do that.
Comments (1)
It's a hassle any way you slice it. Unfortunately part of being a blogger these days I guess. I take my joy in knowing comment spams will not exist long enough to benefit from my weblog. ;-)
Posted by Mike Rohde | December 18, 2004 8:40 PM