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I’ve been getting a lot of trackback spam lately. I suppose it could be worse, but it’s only started happening quite recently. I really wasn’t sure what it was at first. I know now that it’s spam. Though it just seems like people are making blogs and filling them with other peoples posts. No advertising penile enlargements, Viagra and general hardcore acts. Just snippets of posts with a link to the post to read the rest.
I found a list of tools for helping to combat this evil. Would anyone recommend any?
As you may have noticed, I haven’t updated my Photo blog in quite a while. There are two main reasons for this.
- Since starting to photograph gigs, bands and other local activities I just didn’t have the time to get a photograph ready to post every day.
- My camera hasn’t been working for the last 3 months, therefore no new photographs.
It was, however, brought to my attention 2 days ago that one of my entries had received over 400 comments. All of this spam had been placed in my gmail spam folder. This was both a good and bad thing. Good in that Google nicely spotted all the spam correctly - bad ‘cos I didn’t know about it to delete from the blog. I changed the setting on Movable Type’s Junk Score Threshold, though it really didn’t seem to do much good. The next day I had about almost 400 more; I had been getting about 20.83 spam comments an hour. Click here for a screen shot. Thats just ridiculous!
I have had to turn off comments on the site for now - hopefully I will figure out a way to fix the problem by the time I get round to posting again. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.