Comment spam
Comment spamming. Always a nuisance. Textpattern is getting targetted more and more these days.
Though Textpattern is still not a huge target for comment spammers, lately, this website seems to have been discovered by some comment spammers that target textpattern as well. And so began my quest for a blocking system. Before attempting to write one myself, I decided it might be easier to first check if someone already had something in place
Through this post on the textpattern forum, I came to this anti-comment spam measure. The only "downside" is that you have to maintain your own blacklist (are there any centralized blacklist services yet for spam words?) on your server (or leech of other people's blacklists, but that's not good and makes commenting slow). I've just implemented this system here and it seems to work quite well, at least with some small testing I've done.
Maybe I'll port over the system to a database-managed blacklist, which might make it slightly easier to maintain.January 28, 2006 - tags: textpattern
Comments
Marko: yeah damm I have the same problems on mcville , sometimes take a look at the comments stefan heh , daily I erase 3-5 comments with spam caracter :S cheersJanuary 28, 2006
Horst: I’m honestly not really a fan of blacklisting which was also the reason for going with wp-gatekeeper for zerokspot.com (which askes a simple question and refuses the commend if the answer is wrong). My 2nd choice would have been some captcha implementation though 
Have you already this post on the official txp weblog?
http://textpattern.com/weblog/170/combatting-comment-spam
Is it just me or does anybody else wonder why it took so long for the spambot authors to write something for txp? It really can’t be that hard to simply make two requests instead of one
January 28, 2006
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