We got 1.3 million trackbacks over the past 30 days, and 550,000 comments. About 99.8% of trackbacks and over 90% of comments were spam. Over 99% of the spam got blocked, but that still left a lot of cleaning up.
You can turn off comments and trackbacks for specific posts in Movable Type, and we have set it up to do so automatically. Unfortunately, this doesn't do anything as far as I can see. It certainly doesn't stop spam.
So I've forcibly closed comments and trackbacks on all posts more than sixty days old. When I say "forcibly" I mean I went and hacked the Movable Type comment and trackback routines directly.
This appears to work. We still have Fluffy on the job, and we still have MT Blacklist backing up Fluffy, and hopefully this new measure will take us up to blocking 99.9%. We'll see how it goes.
Posted by Pixy Misa at November 10, 2005 10:57 AM | TrackBack