Exploring the Art & Science of Marketing
Comment Spam?
I have been writing posts on my blog since about November 2005, and never once have I had a comment spam problem until Sunday. I call it a problem, but it has quickly become an epidemic. Sadly, I have had to change the permissions in my comments section to require approval, which I don’t want to do, but I have to do it.
So, let’s here the recommendations on controlling comment spam. Captcha? What do you use?
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about 5 years ago
If you do a Captcha, accessibility calls for using one that doesn’t exclude blind people. For instance, Jeff Barr’s blog asks you to enter Jeff’s first name. Easy for anyone except a computer.
You may not even need a Captcha if you upgrade to WordPress 2.0 (if you’re not there already) then use the Akismet plugin. It pools all the spam from multiple blogs so it does a really good job of detecting spam. You’ll need an Akismet “key” which you an get by signing up for a free blog at WordPress.com and then just use the key on your RussPage.net.