Comment spam captcha
Bob Morris @ May 22nd 2007 00:15 - Category: Blogging
The deluge of comment spam on blogs mean spam killer plugins like Askimet will get false positives. When this happens, good comments get lost because there’s too many spam comments in the queue to go through all of them. (This blog has gotten upwards of 1,500 spam comments a day at times.)
Scoble, a major tech blogger, says comment spam is becoming a major problem for him, both in the sheer number of them and the problem of finding the good comments that got flagged as spam.
His blog runs on WordPress.com, which doesn’t support plugins. This blog runs WordPress.org, which does. So I’ve installed a Captcha plugin. You’ll now have to type in a word to get your comment to post (if you haven’t previously been approved.)
This should cut the comment spam way down. Finding false positives will be much easier now.
WordPress.org Captcha plugins.
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Comments subject to deletion at whim of capricious webmaster. Disagreements are ok. Flames, trolls, and right-wing attacks are not. If your comment doesn't appear immediately, then moderation is on, thus there's no need to re-send it.
(However sometimes the anti-spam programs here go awry. Email us if your comments seem to vanish into the void.)
DJ on 22 May 2007 at 9:40 am #
It appears that any time I try to post something with two or more links in it, my comment vanishes. This is unfortunate, as I like to cite my sources (when have them).
Bob Morris on 22 May 2007 at 10:25 am #
Akismet may be flagging those as possible spam. With the new captcha, any such false positives will be much easier to spot.