Seriously, I had no less than 1000 comment spams over the weekend. Every time I sat down at a computer, it seemed I had 100 to 200 more spams sitting there waiting to be deleted. I even tried to close comments for a while by changing the name of the script, but that didn’t work for some reason. How that didn’t work to just close them all the way, I will never know.
Finally last night I had some time and decided to update to the latest beta of Blacklist, which is what I use to delete and block some of the spams. I got it uploaded and ran the install routine on the server. It gave me a success message saying it had been installed. I am thinking “ROCK! I hope this works!”
I got up this morning and looked at my comments and realized that there hadn’t been any yet today. No spams, no nothing. I did a silent cheer and a fist pump thinking I solved the problem.
and it finally occurred to me that commenting might not be working at all. Sure enough, I somehow hosed comments last night while installing the new version of Blacklist.
Maybe the only way to defeat spammers is to close down comments completely.
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Sorry, was just testing to see if they were open again. I had a similar problem. It’s fucked up everything. Comments are screwy.
Getting very, very tired of all this.
I am not sure what it accomplishes. The google algorithm is fixed so it won’t boost them that much. The URL is ghosted in MT. I have 150 people per day. Are they going to get hits from my site?
Geeze.
I don’t know about MT, but WordPress has some very effective plugins to combat these trolls.