Re: Blogs and Comments

I use MT-Blacklist, and it works well.  You could also have your 
comments hosted via a 3rd party, like haloscan.

-justin




Jerry Lawson wrote:

>I'm in much the same situation as Jeff.  The comments feature is valuable,
>but the spammers have become so prolific that it's not worth it.  Deleting
>the spams seems to take me more than the 10-15 minutes a day he mentions.
>Perhaps partly because I'm operating multiple blogs, it's just too
>burdensome.
>
>Does TypePad have any built-in anti-comment spam features?  I had been
>thinking about moving some existing blogs over there anyway.
>
>Movable Type ver. 3.0 is an interim version, for developers.  The "mass
>consumption" ver. 3.0 is not available yet.
>
>Has anyone installed the third-party Movable Type plug-ins that Jeff
>mentions, and if so, with what results?
>
>Jerry Lawson
>http://www.netlawblog.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: jjbeard-sxCt/[email protected] [mailto:jjbeard-sxCt/[email protected]] 
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 1:08 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [NetLawyers] Blogs and Comments
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>Well, I for one, can commiserate with Mr. Drum re: maintaining a blog with
>open comments.  Comment spam is a very serious and time-consuming problem
>for me -- mostly because I haven't had the time to devote to implementing
>one of the third-party Movable Type plugins for closing open comments.
>
>I can corroborate his relative threshold of 10-20K readers, at least as
>measured by "visits" per month or perhaps "pages served" per month in my
>site's Webalizer log reports.  Once my blog crossed that threshold some
>months ago, I started getting comment spam.  Now that it is well over that
>threshold, I'm deluged with them.  In just a single day last week, my blog
>got hit by over 75 spam comments.  Somewhat fortunately, many of them were
>in multiples of 12 comments per post (obviously to manipulate the search
>engines' "link voting"
>logic), so it was easier to delete them in groups, but it was nasty.  It's
>sad to say that it's currently easier for me to find the 10-15 mins a day to
>delete them than it is to find larger chunks of time to devote to
>implementing the solution (there are several Movable Type plugins which take
>somewhat different approaches), although cumulatively I know I'll save much
>more time in short order by doing the latter, so it'll probably end up as a
>weekend project when the weather isn't so nice.
>
>Many bloggers suffering from comment spam have noticed that the overwhelming
>majority of posts getting spammed are ones that have been out there 30 days
>or more.  Conversely, the posts getting valid comments from interested
>readers are usually made in the first week (or two at most) after posting.
>So one of the most effective solutions is to have an automated way to close
>all comments after X number of days of posting.
>
>Like others, I have thought about eliminating the comment feature, but it
>has value both to myself and my blog's readers.  Sometimes, someone will
>point us to an alternative, new, or better solution/product that we wouldn't
>have found on our own.  Having comments open on my "great RSS vs. Atom
>debate" posts earlier this year allowed influential people like Dave Winer
>to add his thoughts.  This in turn generated very spirited discussion and
>debate by other influential posters and my blog traffic and readership
>spiked as a direct result.  Nice win-win.
>
>And naturally, on the downside, that's also about the same time I got nailed
>and continue to get nailed by the comment spam.  So it's really in my corner
>to automate closing the old comments, which I know is doable with some extra
>time investment for my version of Movable Type.  I'm the one leaving the
>comment door open right now, because my time has been preoccupied by my
>recent career advancement and relocation.
>
>But I thought you might appreciate the perspective of someone a bit closer
>to home.
>
>Jeff Beard
>Legal Services IT Manager
>Caterpillar Inc.
>100 NE Adams Street
>Peoria, IL 61629-6490
>(309) 675-4889 (Phone)
>(309) 675-1236 (Fax)
>jjbeard-2nPbLGRuc/[email protected]
>www.lawtechguru.com (Blog)
>
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