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- How I wish we'd had this for my grandmother. December 29, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- It sure was well hidden. No sign in the lyrics, and the official video is very very white. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04C... December 29, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- For your holiday reading: Cary Coglianese & David B. Froomkin, Loper Bright's Disingenuity, 174 U. Penn L. Rev. 91 (2025). pennlawreview.com/2025/12/23/l... December 29, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- How often has he objected to unanimous consent? Never? December 28, 2025 Michael Froomkin
- Here's a brilliant and also moving analysis of the U.S. shift toward authoritarianism...and the importance of individual acts of resistance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FeO... December 28, 2025 Jon Rauch
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.