marklio - Comment spam prevention

Monday, January 31, 2005

I've been pretty lucky so far on the comment spam here until yesterday when the floodgates opened. To combat it, I've enabled the Captcha feature that requires you to type a confirmation number to be able to post a comment. It is fairly self-explanatory and should work fine. Let me know if there are any problems with leaving comments.

P.S. This will most likely prevent using third-party tools to leave comments (like RSSBandit, etc).

[UPDATE] Jen and Dave are having a similar war on comment spam with WordPress. Her blog software of choice.

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posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 7:24:31 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Monday, January 31, 2005 10:54:21 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I'm actually leaving this comment via RSS Bandit.

Pete | Pete

Monday, January 31, 2005 2:29:27 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

That's interesting. Doesn't that seem a bit odd that you could circumvent the system in that way? I'll have to check into that.

marklio | marklio

Monday, January 31, 2005 3:05:41 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hey Mark, I left a comment to your comment on my blog, but decided to add a note here. Wordpress "catches" the spam, but only so it doesn't get published. I still have to go in and manually select and delete all the junk... I found a plug-in that deletes it for me... either that or I'll use the plug-in that keeps it from being posted in the first place if I can understand all the steps involved in getting it to work. The plug-in like your Captcha is the more complicated of the two and involves stuff on my part that I don't understand. Any suggestions on what would be better?

Jennifer | jennifer dot barnesAT NOSPAMgmail dot com

Monday, January 31, 2005 3:11:39 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I prefer the "action-based" approach rather (requiring the poster to perform a task that is easy for a human, but very difficult for a program to perform) than the "content-based" approach. I believe the latter is far easier to circumvent.