wildyams

Trying to Stave Off the Spam

I haven't had any spam comments posted to my blog since I upgraded to Movable Type 3.121, but that doesn't mean that spam comments haven't been submitted here. Since I upgraded a few months ago, I've had just over 9,500 spam comments submitted here, and they've all either been blocked or submitted for my approval before being posted (none of which were approved, of course). While MT v. 3x makes it much easier to go through the hundreds of spam comments and eliminate them (or rather, not approve them to be posted), it is still an almost daily pain in the ass to have to check to see if I got spammed, and then to disapprove all the comments. So even though they never make it to my blog, it's still a little extra maintenance which in a perfect world would not be needed. So I am trying something new to see if this works.

Since virtually every spam comment I've ever seen has been posted to old entries that are no longer on my main page, I am assuming that the automated program these spammers use simply looks for the individual entry pages and fills in the form at the bottom to post comments. What I did is make it so that all my individual entries now have the same javascript function to open a new window if you want to post comments, just like you see on the main page. I am hoping this one additional step will stave off a lot of the automated spam, making it that much less work for me to have to go through and disapprove comments. Anyway, here's hoping it works