Comment and trackback spam
Recently, my blog has been infested with comment and trackback spam. The default mechanisms in Typo to block spam are not great, in my opinion – certainly not up to the quality of spam management available in WordPress. One step I have taken is to enable Akismet filtering. I have not used this before, so I have no idea how effective it will be.
In the meantime, I found myself with hundreds of spam comments and trackbacks that I had to deal with. Thankfully, I came across a console feature available on RoR applications (of which Typo is one). To get rid of all trackbacks, use the following:
Trackback.find_all.each { |t| t.destroy }To get rid of all comments belonging to a particular post (article), you can to as follows:
Article.find(6).comments.each { |t| t.destroy }The 6 in the above line is the id of the article that has the comment spam.
Clearly, this approach is no substitute to a proper spam management interface, but it does show how powerful the RoR console can be.