word verification on comments
To foil the spammers for a while, I added a little word verification task for commenters. This additional step is only meant to verify that an actual human being is doing the commenting rather than a spambot. Anyone can still comment anonymously on any post as long as they can type groovy distorted letters like these into a little verification box. There were just too many advertisements popping up in the comments section, for products that I really didn't want to endorse. At least I think they were ads. My friends wouldn't really be devoting blogs to the sale of ceiling fans, cat toys, and penile enhancement pills, would they?
posted by christopher uggen @ 7:44 PM
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4 Comments:
Dang! I was really getting some good referrals off your blog. =)
hey, as a trusted individual I can still hook you up with $15 million from a nice widow in Africa. Just send your bank records, credit card number, and paypal information...
Some of those comment spam messages were, indeed, quite hard to identify. (That is, you actually had to read a good chunk of them to realize they were spam, which is truly a waste of time.) This is a nice way to deal with the issue.
Right. I hate that long-lost generic friend tone: "Hey, cool blog! You must put a lot of work into it. You should come check out my blog on Stainless Steel Picture Frames." Everybody's gotta make a living, I guess.
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