Fixing my trackback spam

Going through the clean-up process on track-back spam today on Deep Green Crystals. I had over 1000. The job took me over 2 hours. It should have taken 10 minutes. I run 12 blogs. This management task alone could cause me to publish less..

I like the tool in MT, but it is too hard to use. I noticed some interesting trends. It seems like many of the track-backs were done by the same guy since they came in three waves roughly a month apart. Different IP addresses, IDs, and comments, but definitley in batches. A couple of feature requests:

1. Allow me to “ban the IP” and delete the trackback with one click. Now you have to ban the ip, go back to the screen, select the comment, click delete, confirm delete, then go back again. Too many clicks, should be one.
2. SHould be able to ban an ID as well ans an IP. The spammers change their IP addresses more often than their ID or source blogs. I want to do both.
3. Should have a power editing mode to do the job more quickly.
4. Should integrate some of the blacklist or key-word searching screens on track-back comments. There is NEVER a case when I want someone to put the word “rape” or “piss drinker” or “incest” in a trackback.
5. Since these track-backs are done in batches by a bot, the ability to select by date/time would be good. I could delete the whole batch at once.

In the end, I just requested all trackbacks and selected them all and then unchecked the good ones. That was WAY faster. But I would still like the delete function in that case to ban the ID and the IP address.