I really hate web spam. Since I used to run Movable Type here, lots of spammers used to hit up /mt/mt-tb.cgi and /mt/mt-comments.cgi to try to auto-spam my blog. I’ve been running Wordpress for (checks archives) nearly 3 months now, and I’m still seeing it.
Today, I was checking out my Mint statistics, and I noticed I had some really spammy-looking outclicks from my photo gallery. Turns out spambots on in “t3h internets” are spamming my comments in there too, so I’ve disabled Gallery comments now.
Sigh. I wish someone would come up with a TypeKey/LiveID/OpenID system that actually worked and was well used, so comments could be better managed.
(ed. note: now that I’ve written all that, there’s a lot of links up there. And it looks spammy. How ironic and lovely.)
Ever since we have been using WordPress, I have had the Akismet spam filtering stuff enabled and it has worked for us. Caught 128 spams so far, no false positives and only 1 missed I think.
Hey Kevin - Yeah, I’ve got Akismet installed on WP as well…3,844 caught so far, no false positives, and it’s missed 3 or 4. Not bad. I wish Gallery supported Akismet.
Well it IS open source… How to join the Gallery Dev Team.
The amount of spam you get puts our site to shame…. you obviously get more traffic.
Yeah, yeah, Open Source. That assumes I have free time