My new non-best friends, the organ enlargement spam commenters
Today was a banner day for the Movable Type spam comment goons on this weblog. In two 3-minute bursts about half an hour apart, 50 spam posts were placed in comments to weblog archive entries of mine. They are a real pain to extract. So, if you notice a number of entries that do not allow comment, now you’ll know why. It’s a shame, because I really enjoy when folks leave comments and we are able to interact. That is part of what makes a weblog great, the interaction.
And then the idiot hack profiteers devoid of scruple enter the picture.
This has me looking seriously at other weblog platforms. I have had other gripes about Movable Type, the biggest one being that it is not open source. I recently stumbled across WordPress thanks to the weblog of a fellow Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts member. It is under the GPL, and seems to have an impressive feature set. Blojsom just doesn’t appeal to me; neither did Blosxom. Anything that requires me to host my weblog on someone else’s server is out of the question.
I am looking at wordpress also, plus a set of others that I’ll post when I’m at my work machine. In the meantime, I’ve had very good results from mt-blacklist, available at http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/
I bought me some time. I’m down from 30-40 spams/day to 1 or 2 a week. Easy installation, but you have to activate it and load the filters, which isn’t hard, but isn’t very intuitive. Still, it’s a great toy for MT 2.x.
Comment by Tom K. — November 21, 2004 @ 10:29 am
My bookmark list for MT replacement, unfiltered..
http://www.arborblogs.com/archives/000951.php
http://b2evolution.net/
http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm [great chart!]
http://www.blosxom.com/
http://www.drupal.org/
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/05/16/movable_type_too_expensive_check.htm
http://wordpress.org/
Mainly, I want to look into wordpress and b2evolution. Let me know what package you decide on.
Comment by Tom K. — November 22, 2004 @ 10:03 am
Thanks for the list. I will check some of these others out as well. WordPress is where I am leaning, but I definitely want to be sure I have surveyed the field of options. This helps! I will keep you posted; do the same.
Comment by Barry Hawkins — November 22, 2004 @ 12:12 pm