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� Arrr! I Be Blindbeard the Pirate! | Main | The Latest Kind of Comment Spam �Jay Allen gets my vote for supreme arbiter of goodness for this page which documents installing a variety of plug-ins and templates inside Movable Type to block the display of comments which contain URLs repugnant to you. It's not a complete solution, but it does mean that the idiots and scum who have started to spam the comments section of Movable Type (and other) blogs can be suppressed.
It's based on looking for domain names and URLs in the posts and author info in comments, which means that you get the spammers where they leave. They can circumvent all kinds of content restrictions, but in comment spam, they have to link you somewhere.
This shows off the power of Movable Type's extensible architecture. Hooking in Jay's mods took a few minutes. I just had to install a few simple plug-ins, copy his template, and add a bit of If..Then code into the comment templates, and voila!
Posted by Glennf at October 2, 2003 5:46 AM
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Seems there is some good news that blogs are fighting back. We have recently updated our junkeater service to work with movable type weblogs (demo at http://www.junkeater.de/blog ) which should protect against automated submissions fairly effectively and is easy to install.
Posted by: Axel at October 12, 2003 9:09 AM
Thanks for the kind words, Glenn. I am very glad it all worked out for you. Look for some really cool updates soon. Within the next week...
Speaking of which, you installed AFTER the bug update, right? Version 1.2 is the latest. Check the neutralizer macro for the version number...
Posted by: Jay Allen at October 2, 2003 5:58 AM
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