Referral Code?
My site is constantly getting spam comments that need deleting. I was wondering if inserting some referral code into the Movable Type comment.cgi would help make sure that a comment request was actually coming from my site and not from some bot making random requests to the comment file. Any ideas? Seems like it could be a simple solution.
[ Posted 09:52 AM 10/11/2005 ]Sounds like I need to upgrade then, currently on v3.14. I did look into that "fuzzy photo" plug-in and decided that it was simple, but still more than I want to do at the time. Perhaps I'll use that photo password plug-in if I still have problems after upgrading.
[ Comment by Nate; 12:18 AM 11/11/2005 ]Upgraded to MT v3.2.
[ Comment by Nate; 03:44 PM 12/11/2005 ]
You could implement one of those "type the word you see in the fuzzy photo" things that pretty much ensures that it's a human who's commenting on your site.
Check out this plug-in that does it:
http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/plugins/plugin/scode.html
However, if you haven't upgraded to MT 3.2 you should do so, I've had two spam messages I've had to moderate since installing it, it's very good at catching spam.
[ Comment by Jason; 11:52 PM 10/11/2005 ]