June 29, 2006

Fighting the filthy spammers one blog at a time

As SR Noted in the post below there's a thingy (highly technical computer term) that can be added to your Templates to help fight spam.

Add the following line:

<MTCloseComments old="7" inactive="3">

Just before the </MTEntryIfCommentsOpen> line will close any posts that are seven days old and have been inactive for more than three days. For more information see this post.

Posted by phin at June 29, 2006 03:15 AM | TrackBack
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#1

Phin,

Did this work for you? I tried and it did not prevent comments.

Thanks,

SR

Posted by Sacramento Republicrat at June 29, 2006 03:29 AM
#2

Yep, but the post has to be off your index page.

Posted by phin at June 29, 2006 03:31 AM
#3

What if I don't have on my index?

Posted by Sacramento Republicrat at June 29, 2006 03:35 AM
#4

Sorry... /MTEntryIfCommentsOpen

Posted by Sacramento Republicrat at June 29, 2006 03:37 AM
#5

You should be able to add it just about anywhere.

I'll check your site in the morning not working I'll take a look at it.

Posted by phin at June 29, 2006 03:38 AM
#6

OMG... It worked... thank you Phin, thank you, thank you, thank you!...

Die spammers... die

Posted by GM at June 29, 2006 12:02 PM
#7

That's it! Thanks for linking to the older post Phin! That's the one I was referring to, of course, when I left the comment for Steve.

I finally copied and pasted the info into a doc that I keep on my computer so that I can refer to it when I need it. I bookmarked the link but forgot which of my many bookmark folders I stuck it in. So, I ended up looking for it several times and it always took me a while to find it - I figured it was easier to just keep a copy I could find rather than lose the bookmark and have to search each time. *grin*.

Posted by Teresa at June 29, 2006 02:48 PM
#8

Seems to be working for me. Here's another spam question. How is "questionable content" determined? If I understand the blacklist, it is a list of banned URLs. I want to understand how the content of a comment is analyzed and what is causing some to be rejected.

Posted by Steve Janke at June 29, 2006 04:09 PM
#9

Will the same line work with trackbacks to "older" posts such as: " MTClosePings old="15" inactive="10" with the carrot marks?

If so, after what line does it go?

Posted by GM Roper at June 29, 2006 05:04 PM
#10

Steve - The blacklist isn't just banned URLs, it's banned anything. So the word "phentermine" is banned, for example, no matter where it appears in a comment.

Posted by Pixy Misa at June 29, 2006 10:28 PM
#11

One can, I presume, set those dates a little further back. I just got an excellent comment, from one of my occasional visitors, to a previously inactive 8 day old post.

Duh! Just figured out to set it for the same duration I set MTleaveitonthepage.

Posted by triticale at July 1, 2006 12:37 AM
#12

I noticed that I'm still getting email messages that a comment from a spammer has been made, but when I go to "MOST" of the posts, the comment is not there. I go ahead and click off on accepting comments and trackbacks on the older ones anyway and the ones that do get through I delete... but, is this normal?

Posted by GM at July 2, 2006 12:06 AM
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