Following Jay’s advice, I’ve added blogspot.com to my local MT-Blacklist. It looks like various SEOs are creating blogs, filling them with poetry with links to porn/viagra/whatever sites interspersed and then spamming comments and referral lists with them.
Because I’m using the new version of MT-Blacklist, then in theory, any comments with blogspot.com URLs in them will need to moderated. They won’t be blocked entirely though – they’ll just need me to approve them before they’re added. That way, legitimate users of Blog*Spot who want to comment here can still do so. That’s the great thing about the new MT-Blacklist – you can set certain phrases which, instead of prohibiting the comment, merely queue it up for moderation.
Still, I find it a little ironic that spammers are using Blog*Spot, which is owned by Google, to try to improve their Google rankings.
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July 15, 2004 at 20:19
Have you heard when Jay is releasing MT-Blacklist to the general public?
July 15, 2004 at 21:12
I’m interested in know this too. My wife uses MT3.0D, and it will be good to know when and if she starts getting hit by spammers.