Movable Type Knowledge Base: Fighting Comment Spam

Question

How can I deal with comment spam on my weblog?

Answer

In January of 2005, we released our Guide for Fighting Comment Spam.

The guide covers many of the concepts and tools available to fight comment spam and explains the strengths and weaknesses that we've seen of each. We also included our "best practices" recommendations for not only keeping spam off of your site, but making sure that you and your readers have the best possible experience. The document is intended to be a fairly comprehensive, living document which will change and grow over time to reflect the changing nature of the topic.

You may also want to review the Anti-spam category in the Plugin Directory.

The SpamLookup plugin, authored by Brad Choate, was demonstrated to be so effective at helping block spam that a version of it has been integrated into version 3.2 of Movable Type.

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