Fighting Back Against the Spam
The other day I went through here and deleted over 1,000 trackback spam messages. I then went through and closed all my entries to trackbacks. So if you’re looking to quote and give a track back for something I wrote in the past, just let me know and I’ll reopen it.
I will leave new entries open for trackbacks for a limited period before I close them too. I like the idea of using trackbacks, but 1,000 spam messages that accumulated in less than a month is just too much to put up with.
I also now hold all comments until I can personally approve them. This will cause a delay to all comments, but it guarantees no spam will make it through. Hopefully this new system will work well without being too constrictive.
January 14th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Can’t you have some way to let people who’ve been approved before have their comments appear right away? I mean, you know damn well I don’t want your money and have no desire to make any part of you bigger. *snicker*
January 20th, 2006 at 10:16 am
I’m not sure. That would make things easier, surely. I think though sites that do that have some kind of registration set up, like touchpad or blogger or something. I don’t have that.
It would be nice though to ban comments/trackbacks with certain key words in them. I think Wordpress does that, but I haven’t seen it in Moveable Type. Whenever Jason gets around to upgrading this, hopefully it’ll be improved.
March 5th, 2006 at 7:12 am
what does this mean? What are track backs and how do I get rid of them? Sounds like a solution I could use