I'm trying out a few new plugins to cut down on comment spam. I had thought that MT 3.2 had finally solved the spam problem, but it didn't. There was a brief improvement, but then things started up again — except now we don't have MT-Blacklist with which to defend ourselves. Argh.

So there's now some javascript trickery involved in comments. I'll be testing it out in a moment, but the best-case scenario is that you'll need JS enabled in order to post a comment. How do folks feel about that? Would it be better to use a captcha (ie an image-based code that you have to read and enter)?

UPDATE: Okay, looks like everything works — even from my phone. Since I'm the only person likely to care about mobile commenting, I'll count that as "good enough". In other news, I'm a dope: blacklist capabilities still exist in MT, you just have to go through the plugins page to get to them. Not super-convenient, but tolerable. I think I'll keep the new javascript obfuscators enabled anyway, though.