Comments on Future Hi

Hi Everyone.

You may not be aware, but Future Hi gets about 100-200 spam comments a day that I must de-spam using Blacklist. This has become a huge time waster - with this morning taking over an hour to delete them all. What is amazing about this large number is that it represent the number of spam url's not already on the blacklist. Each day I add the latest spam url's from these comments not already on the blacklist. It works out to about 10-15 per day. Since I've installed MT blacklist a couple of months ago, I've added at least 800 new url's to this list! So what we have here a war between bloggers and spammer companies rushing to create new domain names faster than we can get them into our blacklists.

But alas, I have fixed the problem!! This morning I installed a new program that will automatically close comments on any entry over 14 days old. I figure two weeks is plenty of time for comments on a post to cease. If in the rare instance conversation continues beyond 2 weeks, I can adjust it for more time. The reason this will work, is about 95% of spam comments are coming in under the old archived entries.

By the way, if you've been having trouble making comments, that's probably because the blacklist has bloated to such a huge size that it's now taking that long to decide if your post is acceptable to publish. So when you post a comment, please be patient and allow it time to think.

The good news is that if this new program works as advertised I will be able to de-install the blacklist entirely, and you will no longer have to wait at all for your comment to publish.

Posted by paul at October 17, 2004 01:46 PM | TrackBack