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Saturday June 18th 2005, 3:58 pm Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:Miscellany
Posted By: Matt

My comment spam has been getting really bad lately, probably as a result of more people linking to the blog. So it’s a good sign, but extremely annoying nonetheless.

I’m fighting back by adding a “captcha” to the comment form. It’s a bit of an inconvenience, but after manually erasing over 150 spam comments today, I didn’t see much of an alternative. We’ll see if it helps. If anyone has problems getting the captcha to work, please let me know.


3 Comments »

  1. Cool blog feature. How hard was it to install and is it possible for regular folk to implement?

    Comment by Brigetta in Belgrade — 6/20/2005 @ 11:09 am

  2. Oh yeah, I should have mentioned that I used this plugin for the captcha. It requires a bit of PHP tweaking but was still relatively straightforward to get running.

    Comment by Matt — 6/20/2005 @ 11:17 am

  3. Does this plugin make you enter the CODE for a comment? Seems like the higher your PageRank gets, the higher the amount of spam. I’ve gotten lots of invites to Russian Casinos! Thanks for the heads up, will look into this more.

    Comment by mESH — 6/20/2005 @ 5:44 pm

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