I’ve recently returned from a three month trip to South-East Asia. During that time, I tried - fruitlessly - to manage the comment spam problem using the ‘manual’ method of simply deleting the offending comments as they occured. Primarily this was problematic because I was forking out good money to sit at a computer in an Internet cafe, but also it was just plain time consuming.
I was rather relieved then to find that MT-Blacklist was very easy to install. It didn’t take me more than 10 minutes to download and upload it to the weblog software. It took more time to check through and delete the 120+ comments spam I’d accrued. And not even the slightest bit tricky (I’d worried about fiddling around with the weblog software and breaking things whilst a long way from my computer).
It’s still very frustrating that the MoveableType (MT) software ‘out of the box’ is so prone to abuse in this way, and I very much hope that the authors address the issue as a priority in subsequent releases (major AND minor). Providing a central comment posting solution, which integrates with deployments (such that comments are vetted by MT systems, and ‘pulled’ down to the deployed weblog), rather than a distributed solution would seem to be the best approach. They could even, possibly, charge for the service. Until then, however, I suppose that MT Blacklist is the next best thing, and a definate ‘must’ for any other MT users out there.
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