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- Jotwell Torts: Gregory Keating, Sponsoring Torts: Reconceptualizing Platform Liability, JOTWELL (January 13, 2026) (reviewing Jordan Wallace-Wolf, A Novel Tort Duty for Platforms that Intermediately Produce Real World User Interactions, 18 J. Tort L. 439 (2025). ), torts.jotwell.com/sponsoring-t... January 13, 2026 Jotwell
- “On the one hand, it feels weird to say the US government is attempting some low-key ethnic cleansing. On the other hand, we have a masked secret police force attempting to kidnap brown people; one government agency daydreaming about deporting 100 million people…” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... January 13, 2026 Bill Kristol
- Every day, something vile. But even in that context this has to be special. Esp since Trump says he's running Venezuela. January 13, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- "Papers please". Putin would be so proud. Good to see that the victim had no truck with it despite the threats. January 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Legal Hist: Samy Ayoub, Equality Before Law: Just Zionism, Political Liberalism, and the Question of Palestine, JOTWELL (January 12, 2026), legalhist.jotwell.com/equality-bef.... 1/2 January 12, 2026 Jotwell
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.