Managing Comment Spam

Just when I was about to turn off comment moderation and open live commenting up, a new wave of comment spam hits the blogosphere. We moderate comments to stop spam, it’s a pain, but works (and how exactly is nofollow stopping spam?). Movable Type 3.2 has significantly improved spam blocking, but those minions of the evil spam lords are hard at work and figured out how to flood sites again. Comment spam is where the Kum-by-yah of blogging is abruptly stopped by the practicality of running a business. I’ve been quoted about not running comments on some blogs and this is the exact reason why. If you’re running a high-volume site, with lots of comments, you’ve going to have to allocate a resource to manage the blog conversation. Unless, you want to promote a $150.00 rolex, penis pills, something indecipherable in Russian, and girls gone wild.