fun with spambots

Over the last month or so, I've noticed all sorts of spam comments getting posted to my blog. My favorite so far read something along the lines of:

Great blog! Fascinating, relevant posts. Check out http://somesite.com for penis enlargement solutions.

Fortunately it hasn't yet reached a volume that makes manual moderation unbearable, but it's a disturbing, yet predictable trend... and I'm not the only one who has something to say about it.

Of course the release of MT-Blacklist can help us MovableType users manage this nonsense, but why not have more fun with it? I propose that we co-opt spambots for our own purposes. Through a combination of automatic and manual detection, we can remove spam postings from the comments listings and instead, for each entry, post a "spambot score." We could even have a spambot-honeypot design contest to see who can snare the most spambots. I may even come to regret having so callously deleted those penis enlargement ads before they could be added to my tally. Or, better yet, can we create "spamback" mechanisms and leverage the blogging community + the wonderful world of web services to have some fun at the spammer's expense?

So who wants to write Movable Type modules to do this? Any takers? :)