Comment spam

I’m getting really tired of people using the ability to post comments to blog entries for their own nefarious purposes, namely to drop in links to the latest site for cheap Viagra and penis enlargement technology. Presumably, they’re hoping that Googlebot will find these links, resulting in an increase of their site’s PageRank.

To combat this, I’ve written a patch to Movable Type 2.661 to detect this kind of spam at the time of entry. If a spam attempt is detected, the comment will be refused and the originating IP will be automatically added to the ban list. So, if you’re a genuine user, don’t play around with this feature and try to trigger it!