I’ve been getting frequently hit by comment spam lately, and it’s really getting on my nerves. The comment spammers are finding new ways to get around MT-Blacklist just as soon as we find ways to block them. I refuse to turn off the commenting option, but I have started turning off comments for older entries that get hit with comment spam. There is a MovableType plugin that closes comments for older posts, but I’m not sure I have everything I need to run it. This plugin requires SQL, and my hosting company provides MySQL for five databases, but I don’t know anything about administering those databases or what they are. I’m guessing that it means I can create and run five MySQL databases. The support documentation for MTCloseComments is typical of most MovableType documentation — it assumes I know how to fill in the spaces between the lines. I suppose that all I can do is give it a try and hope that it works and nothing is broken if it doesn’t.
more comment spam
Trying to turn off commenting for older posts with tools that are not user-friendly.
I have been having the same problem with older postings. It is so frustrating! I was going to send comments to the typepad folks.
I had been getting comment spam and finally got tired of just deleting the posts. Plug their IP address into the search at http://www.arin.net/whois to find out their host and then shoot off an e-mail to them (include the IP addy and link to the post which has been spammed). It really only takes a minute or two and I figure if I can make just one spammer lose a net connection I’m doing some good.