Thank you, MT-Blacklist!
As I just noted, I got spammed 50 times by some jerk–mass blog comment spam, my first time. Unfortunately, in Movable Type–the software that runs this blog–to delete a comments you have to click, wait, click, wait, click, click and click again just to delete one comment. There is no batch-deletion built in.
Enter MT-Blacklist, a freeware plugin made by Jay Allen. It not only detects and blocks likely spam, but it allows for just the mass-deletion I was looking for. Just upload three files to the directories noted in the ReadMe file, Chmod the permissions to 755, go to the mt-blacklist.cgi file, and presto, you’re golden. Instead of spending an hour deleting the slimy spam droppings defacing my site, I zapped them all in a few seconds.
Thank you, Mr. Allen!