Many ISPs, including mine, are having major problems with comment spam straining their servers. I can report that two simple fixes have blocked a HUGE fraction of my MT 2.6x comment spam: closed comments on all posts more than a month old, using the close comments plugin, and I rewrote my comment templates to require users to preview comments once before posting. Combined with my usual MT-Blackllist list, the results are dramatic. Not 100% blockage, but at least 97% of the stuff that used to get through isn't. And much of what remains is weird spam — links to non-existent web sites … which I presume are being groomed for sale once they get high googleranks. (And lots of these are in the .de TLD for some odd reason.)
Recent Bluessky Posts- John Marshall doesn't get above the fold? June 10, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Hell of a speech. Great on the issues. Passionate. Great digs ("Susan Collins: her last town hall was when I was in 8th grade") Collins as the architect of the repeal of Roe and buddy of the Epstein class. Much about him to worry about, but he's now our son of a bitch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovj0... June 10, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Yikes. Time to take this much more seriously. June 10, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Former intelligence analyst here: this will 100% be abused by US intelligence services cooperating with US law enforcement. If they claim you have protections, they're lying. June 9, 2026 Jake Williams
- Fails to disprove the hypothesis they want to make us all unsafe. June 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
One other thing to consider: rename your comments script to mt-comment.cgi. You have to make some changes in a few forms, but spammers looking for “mt-comments.cgi” won’t find it.