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- Fails to disprove the hypothesis they want to make us all unsafe. June 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- @dfroomkin.bsky.social and @amandaweiss.bsky.social got married! June 5, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Tax: Susan Morse, Jury Rights in Civil Tax Cases??, JOTWELL (June 5, 2026) (reviewing Steve R. Johnson, Jarkesy, the Seventh Amendment, and Tax Penalties, 79 U. Mia. L. Rev. 461 (2025)), tax.jotwell.com/jury-rights-.... June 5, 2026 Jotwell
- Jotwell Torts: Anita Bernstein, Male Supremacy as a Products Liability Defect, JOTWELL (June 4, 2026) (reviewing Melissa F. Wasserman, Products Liability in a World Designed for Men, 105 Tex. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027)), torts.jotwell.com/male-suprema.... June 4, 2026 Jotwell
- May I suggest jotwell.com as a very partial substitute? June 4, 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.