I just meant that any kind of visible hurdle for commenters is a concession to the problem, not that it advantages the spammers in any way.
I continue to use the MT Blacklist system and the level of spam which needs manual attention isn't too bad right now - like none for a few days. I'm beginning to think that trackback is not worth the bother though. The thing which worries me is that I ocassionally get an email or speak to somebody who says they tried to leave a comment and couldn't. Perhaps that's because Slartibarfast is a little unresponsive sometimes, or maybe I have a rogue expression in the blacklist. Also, during periods of increased new spam it's possible to delete genuine comments by mistake if you're not careful, so not ideal.
Wiki spam on my MediaWiki is more of a concern, although that seems to have eased up a bit. I don't mind the occasional main page revert but I had one spamming visitor who would paste a pageful of links into a dozen or so of the main content pages and then create a raft of identical new pages as well - Grrr. These people aren't spamming to get human attention, but for google's page rank sake.
One point about the system here: Most blogs allow commenters to leave a URL linking back to their own blog which then appears as their name, but you don't have that field for some reason. I'll try including the html, but that won't be saved in my browser for future comments like the usual form. I think that's an important part of the networking.
Andy
I just meant that any kind of visible hurdle for commenters is a concession to the problem, not that it advantages the spammers in any way.
I continue to use the MT Blacklist system and the level of spam which needs manual attention isn't too bad right now - like none for a few days. I'm beginning to think that trackback is not worth the bother though. The thing which worries me is that I ocassionally get an email or speak to somebody who says they tried to leave a comment and couldn't. Perhaps that's because Slartibarfast is a little unresponsive sometimes, or maybe I have a rogue expression in the blacklist. Also, during periods of increased new spam it's possible to delete genuine comments by mistake if you're not careful, so not ideal.
Wiki spam on my MediaWiki is more of a concern, although that seems to have eased up a bit. I don't mind the occasional main page revert but I had one spamming visitor who would paste a pageful of links into a dozen or so of the main content pages and then create a raft of identical new pages as well - Grrr. These people aren't spamming to get human attention, but for google's page rank sake.
One point about the system here: Most blogs allow commenters to leave a URL linking back to their own blog which then appears as their name, but you don't have that field for some reason. I'll try including the html, but that won't be saved in my browser for future comments like the usual form. I think that's an important part of the networking.
Andy