Deleting Movable Type Comments
Thanks to Julie of Seedlings and Sprouts for passing along this tip-- it works wonderfully-- to remove blog spam. Share this with every Moveable Typer you know so the slugs who leave their waste on your blog will be wasting their time. Sweet revenge, it is!
This is the URL you need to delete comment #XX from blog# 1 on your movable type implementation:
http://...put.approprate.stuff.here.../mt.cgi?blog_id=1&_type=comment&__mode=delete&id=XX
Took me a minute to figure out that I clip my MT script from my edits page up to the cgi? then substitute the "blog id..etcetc =" above and the XX is the comment number for the one you want to remove. You can find that at the end of the address (in the address window) while viewing the soon-to-disappear comment, e.g., 4195&blog_id=1 was my last comment, so I would append 4195 to the url, click it, and it's gone.
Comments
Glad you got it to work for you. I'm grateful to Ben Hyde for the tip.
I also meant to recommend IP Banning, as a preventative measure, if you haven't already been doing that - yet another strategy I'm trying: cutting and pasting the IP address from the spam into the IP Banning box under Weblog Config - to help ensure the slugs don't try again, at least not from the same address. This spamming does seem pretty desperate or despicable...
But there's enough fun in the rest of blogging to more than make up for it - thanks for your kind comments (and handshake advice ;))
Posted by: Julie | January 21, 2004 7:16 PM
A much better solution is to install Jay Allen's MT Blacklist, which eliminates much comment spam and largely automates the removal of what gets through.
Electrolite recently posted his and another's Blacklist, which you can copy to strengthen your defenses.
Posted by: Dave Trowbridge | January 28, 2004 12:45 AM
Whoops! Didn't notice your earlier post about trying to install MT Blacklist. Drop me an email if you like and I'll try to help. It didn't seem too problematic on my blog.
Posted by: Dave Trowbridge | January 28, 2004 12:48 AM