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November 18, 2004
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At least, that's what a lot of spammers think that about blogs, a way to get their link count up. While this, in part, is Google's fault, bloggers can not relay on Google to fix the problem.
For MovableType users, MT-Blacklist is key. I believe I talked about this plugg-in when I first installed it. However, it's undergone some changes since the release of MovableType 3.0D and is more impressive then ever. Thanks to blacklist, you'll seldom see span hit my pages.
Blacklist has had a number of impressive updates, including the ability automatically link to the central blacklist and exchanges information with that list, ensuring that the blogging community shares blacklisted URLs.
One of the best features is that blacklist will cause comments on older posts (which is where most of the spam hits) to be set to moderated - it also allows me to choose how many URLs can be included in a comment before it's set to moderate. Thanks to that, I'm able to delete them without anyone ever seeing them Another big improvement is that I no longer have add one URL at a time to the blacklist, blacklist will now mass add and repair comments.
While it also looks alot better, not everything is perfect with MT-Blacklist, the biggest downside is that the documents are not finished so I don't know if I can safely import old spam URLs, of course, that's not a big thing since they will be available at some point.
As for installation, it's so simple that each time I've installed it I've wondered if I missed a step or something. If you run MT 3+, get this plug-in!
Posted by Jesse at November 18, 2004 08:16 PM
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