До последнего времени я просто задыхался под кипами спама, каждый день выпалывая по сотне а то и больше непрошенных комментариев. Все изменилось после того как я установил и сконфигурировал MT Blacklist. Сейчас я горя не знаю.

I am getting tons of comment spam on this blog. I was trying all means provided by core Movable Type, I also set nofollow. No effect.

And finally I found the ultimate solution! It's the MT plug-in called MT Blacklist. After I installed it and set just three filters on magic words: Poker, penis and pharmacy I immediatly got rid of approximately 50% of spam comments. It also helps that the plug-in is coupled with centrally maintained database of malicious URLs, which is always up-to-date. Any user can report abuse and it will be recorded in the database.

The most effective feature however is amazingly simple. One can set number of URLs allowed in a comment. Absolute majority of spam comments includes more then one URL. By setting this number to two I managed to get rid of all remaining spam.

I have no idea what cialis is, but somehow I am getting around 20-40 comments with this suggestion posted on this blog daily. Blogspam - it is. Only casinos online overdid this mysterious substance.

To fight spam I simply configure my blog such that HTML is stripped out of comments. All spammers need is higher ratings on search engines. Since I strip HTML, they won't get any rating increase. This means that if spammers are technically savvy, they would leave me alone. Apparently they are not. That's why I have to remove tons of spam regularly to keep my site clean. IP-filtering not helping et all. Bastards change IP-addresses daily. I gave up when my list of forbidden addresses grew to almost 300.

Today I turned HTML on again. Do I want to help spammers to earn their difficult bread? Not quite. Major Blog builders together with major search engines came to a solution allowing to fight blogspam. The key is the rel="nofollow" attribute on all reference tags in comments. Blog software inserts this attribute automatically while search engines know to ignore such links in their ratings.

I don't think that spam will stop anytime soon, but smarter spammers and their customers will have to turn away from blogs to other solutions.

When publishing did you get tired of dealing with browser and forms and constantly loosing your content? I did! Then all these spell checks I have to cut and paste for and all those links I have to insert manually. Waste of time. I was also scared by stories from fellow bloggers of their hosting providers loosing all content after hard drive crashes, etc. I do MT database backups from time to time, but wouldn't it be better just keep original content locally under my control?? Thus I opted for new cool thing called Blog Client. There are plenty of them around apparently.

Lots of people recommend w.bloggar.

I am using MovableType for my WebLog. First I tried to post Japanese or Russian text I found that all characters converted into HTML-Unicode which is bunch of &# and digit codes, e.g. if I enter my name in Japanese　アナトル or in Russian Анатолий it's was converted into something like &# 26085; on the entry screen. At the same time the page was displayed correctly on the public site itself.