The Wily Filipino

Comment Spam.

God I hate spam. I get enough of it in my mailboxes, and now my blog comments are getting them too -- urls for "horny chickz" and whatnot (namely, the three folks mentioned here). (Joseph Duemer actually found the guy behind "Lolita.") I'm assuming bots simply look for "mt-comments.cgi" and post away, hoping I don't catch them in time before the spam post registers on Google.

Of course, I don't have time to monitor what few comments I already receive. (I also have to rebuild every time I delete a comment, and the spam comments are almost always hidden a few months in.) And I like my Movable Type comment system and don't really want to move to some external comment site like Squawkbox.

There are some MT filtering hacks out there; JayAllen.org also has a long discussion of what the filters should do. But I'm still a little too traumatized from fiddling with a botched MT installation from about a year back to even think about redoing my templates...

[Update: see comments section as well for mt-blacklist -- but in the few hours since I composed this, I've already received four spam comments from someone named "Preteen." Fucking spammers.]