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March 23, 2005

Trackback / Comment Spam

Is it just me, or does most of the comment/trackback spam come from old archived posts. I know a number of sites that close comments and trackbacks after a certain period of time--say, one or two weeks. I'm pretty sure there is a script for this. Wouldn't a quick and easy solution be to institute a no comments/trackbacks allowed policy after a post is a couple of weeks old?

Posted by: Rusty at 07:58 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 We have a script installed for closing comments. There's a post here somewhere explaining it.

We still need to find one for closing trackbacks, though. That's also something missing from MT3.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 24, 2005 12:39 AM

2 Pixy:

It's definitely available for MT3.

I'm just on my way out for dinner, but will dig it out and contact you when I have it.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at March 24, 2005 01:20 AM

3 Thanks.

MT Blacklist 2 automatically blocks comments to old posts, but not trackbacks. I'd be happy to install another plugin for that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 24, 2005 02:42 AM

4 Rats. The plugin I was thinking of allows forcing moderation of trackbacks, not closing them. Looks like MT-Close 2 is still the only way to do that.

That said, I've had extremely high effectiveness on a couple of sites with renaming and obfuscating the TB script the same way as with the comment script. Unfortunately, its effectiveness lasts only a month or so, then the files need to be renamed again. Not sure if there's any way to make that workable with the massively-multiblogger MuNu setup due to the rebuilding requirement. (there is a way to automate the changing and rebuilding, but the server load would be intense.)

P.

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