{"id":430,"date":"2004-12-16T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/12\/six_apart_addresses_comment_spam_issues\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T16:56:36","slug":"six_apart_addresses_comment_spam_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/16\/six_apart_addresses_comment_spam_issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Apart Addresses Comment Spam Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some important information MovableType&#8217;s blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/news\/2004\/12\/comment_spam_load_issue.shtml\">Movable Type creating server load issues when dealing with comment spam<\/a>.  It contains some tips for lessening your server load while Six Apart readies a patch.  I&#8217;m glad to hear that Siz Apart is on this because I was really getting worried after reading &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/photodude.com\/article\/2592\/mt-plus-comment-spam-equals-dead-site\">MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site<\/a>&#8216; the other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some important information MovableType&#8217;s blog about Movable Type creating server load issues when dealing with comment spam. It contains some tips for lessening your server load while Six Apart readies a patch. I&#8217;m glad to hear that Siz Apart is on this because I was really getting worried after reading &#8216;MT Plus Comment Spam&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/16\/six_apart_addresses_comment_spam_issues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six Apart Addresses Comment Spam Issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":463,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/19\/movable_type_316_released\/","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":0},"title":"Movable Type 3.16 released","date":"April 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Six Apart has just released Movable Type 3.16. Hopefully some of its 'over one hundred fixes' will fix the annoying problems I've had recently. On a related note, this SpamLookup plugin looks like it's worth installing. It's so effective that Jay Allen, the author of MT-Blacklist has disabled his MT-Blacklist\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":414,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/14\/comment_spammers_are_wilding_out\/","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":1},"title":"Comment Spammers are Wilding Out","date":"November 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I just took a look at my MT-Blacklist statistics and was shocked by what I saw. A couple of weeks ago I noticed an increase in the amount of comment spam that was slipping by the blacklist. So I decided to add some items of my own to the filter.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":425,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/12\/mt-blacklist_corrections_and_suggestions\/","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":2},"title":"MT-Blacklist Corrections and Suggestions","date":"December 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"In case you haven't seen it already, there's an important post about some changes to the MT-Blacklist master blacklist on Jay Allen's site. Jay gives some suggestions about some expressions and URL Patterns to add to your blacklist. As an aside, I'm still trippin' off of the amount of comment\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":446,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/31\/interview_with_a_link_comment_spammer\/","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":3},"title":"Interview with a Link \/ Comment Spammer","date":"January 31, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Register interviewed a link spammer who revealed some of his methods and motivation. The bottom line -- spammers can make up to seven figure incomes from some simple computer code. Some key points: For even a semi-competent programmer, writing programs that will link-spam vulnerable websites and blogs is pretty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":179,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/more_on_comment_spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":4},"title":"More on Comment Spam","date":"September 5, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a discussion about possible methods of stopping blog comments spamming over at Adam Kalsey's blog. 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