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Damn Comment Spammers
I know TypeKey is a hassle commenting here, but I took it down two days ago to test some things at the Daily SearchCast site. I haven't been back to switch it on until today. Fortunately, Movable Type also has some built-in spam filtering tools. Eleven completely junk spams were caught, in that time. Yeah, it could have been a lot more for some sites, I know. Still, I was surprised that a site which was closed to open comments for so long so quickly got hit once the barriers were lifted. They're back up now. One thing annoys me, though. Movable Type is set to let any authenticated commenter (that should be anyone using TypeKey) post immediately. But the separate "Junk Threshold" detector still seems to kick in, causing some posts to get held. I'm adjusting that. Overall, the system has been really helpful. For Search Engine Land, we'll use it initially until we can get our own comment registration system in place. By Danny Sullivan on Nov. 30, 2006 | Permalink See related posts in: Blogs & Feeds
Next Post: Radioactive British Airways Flights Comments Comment by SearchRank I must admit -I'm not really a fan of typekey, or at least blogs where I have to use it to post - that will usually stop me from commenting. Kind of ironic that I am posting that line on a Type-key blog... Anyways, have you thought about moving to Akismet for Movable Type? Akismet has had a 100% catch rate for me, no false positives yet, and is completely invisible to the visitors. It would save them all the hassle of getting a Typekey acount in order to post... Here's the URL for the plugin: http://akismet.com/blog/2006/04/for-mt/ Comment by Caydel I'll take a look and appreciate the plug-in URL. My main hesitation is that I've heard that Akismet doesn't let site owners override its blacklists. For example, I think I'm on the blacklist (no idea why, I promise, I'm innocent), and so when I posted to one blog recently, the owner told me he couldn't get my post up. Comment by Danny Sullivan Want to comment? If you are signed into TypeKey, you'll see a form below. No form? Click on the sign-in link below, and you can sign-in or sign-up for a free account. Sorry you have to use TypeKey, but I use it to avoid comment spam. All comments currently appear automatically after posting.
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I experience the same thing at my Blog which is powered by Movable Type. I have found several valid comments filter into the Junk Comments so I make it a point to try to skim through those every couple of days to see if MT pushed anything in their by mistake.