Atomic Playboy

I had my first piece of comment spam since installing MT-Blacklist today. The spamvertized domain wasn’t in the default blacklist, but MT-Blacklist conveniently adds a URL at the bottom of the comment mails I get where I can block the URL with a few clicks. Very quick and easy.

The domain in the spam was an apparently random bunch of letters, which made me draw the conclusion that it was registered for the sole purpose of comment spamming. The whole point of spamming in comments appears to be to increase your pagerank when the Google spider makes a driveby, which is why comment spam should be nuked as soon as it appears.

Upon upgrading MT-Blacklist, I noted the Comment Spam Clearinghouse where you can submit your comment spam, and get it added to a centralized blacklist to use with MT-Blacklist. If you could auto-update the blacklist on your server, comment spam would be shot dead in its tracks. Maybe in a future version…