Comment spam be gone…
Published December 14th, 2004 in GeekI know it’s been quite sometime since I’ve posted an entry. Anyway, I’m currently looking into new software which I can fight comment spam a little better. Until then I’m closing comments on all my old posts…
hey, is this spam??
Nahh… Although it isn’t very useful! I’m just hate the one’s which say:
“nothing to comment here, so check out these naked 5 year olds”
The crap in spam is becoming rather sick in my opinion…
I’ve seen blogs that use a Captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha), one of those distorted images with text on them, to validate that the poster is at least likely to be a person. This may not solve the comment spam problem entirely, but I assume that this gets rid of most of the automated spam. Of course I don’t know how difficult it would be to integrate something like this with your blog software.
Ahh, very cool. I’ll have to look into this…