Comment Spam

Posted Sat Jan 14, 2006 in Blogging

I’ve been dealing with a round of comment spam recently. There haven’t been a lot of spams, but I find the practice so hideous that I’m motivated to do something about it.

Textpattern does not (yet) have the tools to trap comment spam, like Movable Type, Wordpress, and others have. Txp just hasn’t matured in that area, yet. I’m sure it will.

What I can do, though, is turn on comment moderation. That means I have to approve a comment before it appears. The practice defeats the spammers motivation for spamming—raising Google page rank. So, comment moderation is now turned on. I keep pretty close tabs on my site, so your comments, the legitimate comments, will appear quickly.