I'm still clearing out spam; I've been doing this since Sunday, but at least I've made some fairly good progress. I'm down to 2,805 comments in my own blog (from a maximum of 6,000).
Part of the problem is that a lot of the spam is really old; right now, I'm scanning the past 2,000 comments, and only 57 hits came up. Currently, I've narrowed down my spam searching to just my blog, as it is the worst off of the entire system (probably because it's the most linked-to). Once I get several thousand of my own comments out of the way, it'll be easier for me to search-and-destroy the spam on the other blogs.
I've gotten a couple of other blog.evula.net members to de-spam their own blogs for me, which has really helped.
The other thing I've been doing is closing up the comments for not only my old posts, but other people's, too. Have no fear, those-who-actively-use-their-blogs; I'm not modifying your posts. I'm talking about blogs that have 4 entries, but those are a couple of years old. Once all this crap is finished, I'll be emailing people and deleting the innactive blogs. I've already got the green light to trash a couple of old ones, but for right now, I'm just closing them up (so they can't get worse) and manually harvesting the older spam URLs.
Once all this is taken care of, I'll be (a) investegating an alternative to MT 2.64 (either the latest version of MT, which will cost money, or the free alternative of WordPress), and (b) starting to post more about my actual life and plans for the Empire.
Posted by Eric at February 8, 2006 02:07 PMCool. Great work de-spamming. It's good to have you back. ;)
Posted by: Cha0s at February 8, 2006 09:32 PM