[geeklog-users] Comment Spammers

[Tony Bibbs]

Ray, there are efforts amoung blogs/CMS/etc to implement spam 
prevention.  Someone recently posted to us about a project MoveableType 
has.  Right now we don't have immediate plans for this though the 
subject has been discussed amongst us developers with no real decisive 
route planned.  If you could research a few of the options out there for 
us and report back that would be a great first step.  After you get 
ideas rounded up we can all comment on them and get started on a solution. 

Of course, I don't want to prevent progress either so if you just some 
hack out some sort of solution that's fine...just figured we'd do some 
due diligence before we commit too far toward one solution.

Still interested?  (I hope so!)

--Tony



Ray Benjamin wrote:

>I'm having problems with someone or some group posting comments to
>articles on my site that are just links to porn sites.  It's not really
>the kind of image I want for my site.  I'm trying to find the right way
>to handle the problem.  I expect to get more traffic in a few months and
>I'm hoping it will be impractical to police every comment by hand.
>
>At first I disabled comments except from users that were logged in, but
>I've found that discourages a lot of people from commenting.  It might
>be nice if there were a filter plugin that would allow me to set up
>keywords and phrases that would cause a comment to be rejected.
>
>Does anyone know if something like this is under development?  If not I
>might take a crack at it myself.
>
>Thanks,
>  Ray
>
>_______________________________________________
>geeklog-users mailing list
>geeklog-users at lists.geeklog.net
>http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-users
>  
>