La Shawn felt it necessary to reinforce that she is “Queen Of My Domain”. Good for you, La Shawn. Ain’t control wonderful? But sometimes scary. She can handle it.
I’ve not had the need for such measures, and wonder how I would handle them. I did have someone call me a moron in the comments. I simply replied, “Thank you for playing.” He never came back.
The last few days I’ve had something even more pernicious–comment spam. Different names, different emails (all fake), but the same message and pointing to the same site. An online pharmacy. I visited them. I hit their “Contact Us” page and left a message.
If you care to continue advertising on my blog, I would be pleased to host you. My fee is only $100 per Comment Advertisement. Please contact me (I gave them my phone number, but not my email address–how times have changed!) for payment, or cease posting advertisements on my site.
I’ll continue to send them the same message each time I get one of theirs. I don’t know how many I should keep before taking any kind of legal action, but that’s the only way to stop them. When I keep the evidence, it won’t show up online unless you see it before I get to it.
Thanks for the link, Bunker!
Does MT have a spam filter? In WP, a comment will be dumped in a “waiting for approval” area until the admin can approve or disapprove if it contains 5 or more links, for example. We can adjust the settings to increase or decrease the number, of course. I’ve caught at least 5 in the past week.
Comment by La Shawn — August 21, 2004 @ 5:37 pm
MT allows me to do the same that Blogger now does, ask for registration. It also has the ability to moderate, but I’ve not yet found the need to. Maybe I’ll end up doing that, but I’ll never require the registration.
Comment by Bunker — August 21, 2004 @ 5:50 pm
After I make my second $100 million I’m gonna’ hire me a couple of full time lawyers just to sue morons like that and make their lives unholy hell.
Comment by Wallace-Midland, Texas — August 21, 2004 @ 8:30 pm
Comment spam actually made me mad enough to take down my site. I was away for 3 days and came back to over 200 of them all in different posts.
I’m just now (over 2 months later) getting around to reconstructing everything.
Unlike you, I have chosen the registration method to keep them out.
Comment by Larry Morin — August 22, 2004 @ 11:56 am
mt blacklist works very well. it is also easy to install. Kate has done something similar about charging for comment spam. since she is a lawyer, perhaps people take a bit more notice of her warning. i don’t really know though.
Comment by rammer — August 22, 2004 @ 4:04 pm
Send ’em a “shrinkwrap” contract for advertising hosting that states that further comment spam on the site constitutes an opt-in to the terms of the contract.
Then send ’em a bill when you get the comment spam again. I’m presuming your server logs will show when the email went out and when the spam arrived, as proof that they opted in to your ad-hosting services.
Comment by wheels — August 26, 2004 @ 7:11 pm