October 14, 2003
blog comment spam removal
from slashdot:
mattwarden writes "The back-and-forth between spammers and mortals continues. Anyone with a MovableType blog that is even remotely on the map has no doubt been hammered lately with comment spam, comments made on entries by a script or program in an attempt to increase search engine page rankings. Prior to today, one had to manually delete each of these comments. No more! Jay Allen has developed a plugin for MovableType that removes these spam comments based on a blacklist (of both hostnames and regular expressions) and intercepts new spam comments before they are made. There's even a one-click link included in the comment notification email that makes it easy to de-spam your blog."
now, im all for this type of thing. but this again goes back to the conversation i have been having with kurt and will. the owner of the site decides what is spam. is this an all or nothing deal? can you have a system that filters junk without discarding it? is there an adavantge to keeping everything? esp when it effects things like page rankings?
