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Captcha needed[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#12)
by foxyshadis1 on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 07:07:13 PM PDT

Can we get at least a very basic captcha on anonymous comments? I'm talking as simple as a constant word, which you can even mention in the articles, or an easy-to-see one. (Not one of those gruesomely gnarled ones made to stop OCR engines.) Even if you only make it show on posts more than a week or two old, even if it uses javascript trickery to only show for those w/o javascript, that would help immensely against the current spam waves. In another year or two you might need a stronger captcha, but this is a problem that needs solving now.

The other problem from my point of view is that searching by comments is incredibly slow, which means I'm practically DoSing your site by trying to clean up another DoS. It's the only effective way to find random spam though. I'm not sure if an update to the blog software would help that, or if it needs custom changes.

Although I've been willing to help the site with its spam problems, and I think it made a difference when I could do a full search 2-3 times a day, I simply can't compete with automation without help from Jeff.

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Re: Captcha needed[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#13)
by Ed Foster on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 04:47:40 PM PDT

Jeff is looking for a way to put a captcha on anonymous posts, but he needs to figure out how to do it in a way that the spammers won't be able to bypass too easily. -- Ed

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