Jeff's Lunchbreak: Commenting Change- Bringing Back the CAPTCHAs

No Spam I've reimplemented CAPTCHAs (Wikipedia entry) for people wanting to leave comments. Basically, a CAPTCHA is one of those pictures of a random string of characters that users have to type in to be able to leave their comment, based on the fact that people are pretty good at reading these things, while computer programs aren't, so it should eliminate comments from automated spam programs. I think I've figured out my mistake from the last time I tried to do this - that time I only included the CAPTCHA code on the entry pages, but not on the comment preview pages, so when people were previewing their comments and then hitting submit, they were getting tagged as spam. I was sure to inlcude the CAPTCH code in the comment preview pages this time, and I've even checked it out with some test comments, so hopefully it will work right this time and all legitimate comments will get through.

I didn't want it to have to come to this, but spam comments had just gotten horrendous in the past couple weeks. Since I'd removed the CAPTCHA, I had been getting, on average, less than one spam comment per day making it through my other filters. That was pretty easy to stay on top of, and it wasn't cluttering up this blog. Recently, however, those comments have been through the roof (yesterday, for example, 27 made it through). Since my blog is set up to send me an e-mail whenever I get a comment, those spam comments weren't just cluttering up my blog, they were cluttering up my inbox, as well. Monday mornings, after a long weekend, were especially fun.

So, spammers, thanks for making everybody's lives more difficult. Jerks.

Comments

Hope that gets rid of the problem for you.

Posted by: Eric Jones | February 20, 2008 7:41 AM

Well, I think it might have, but it's tough to tell. No spam comments have gotten through since I've done this, but on the other hand, I don't have a large number of junked comments in my junk folder like I was expecting, so maybe the spammers coincidentally got stopped right at the same time I implemented this change.

Posted by: Jeff | February 20, 2008 3:59 PM

lipitor 10mg price buy lipitor 40mg sale atorvastatin over the counter

Posted by: Scdumj | March 12, 2024 1:36 PM

cipro order online - order ciprofloxacin sale order augmentin 625mg generic

Posted by: Vfqgkc | March 13, 2024 11:44 PM

oral baycip - clavulanate over the counter buy generic augmentin over the counter

Posted by: Mbmbbq | March 14, 2024 10:33 PM

generic flagyl 400mg - cheap generic amoxicillin purchase azithromycin without prescription

Posted by: Ytlmkz | March 16, 2024 7:18 PM

buy generic ciprofloxacin online - buy chloramphenicol without prescription order erythromycin 250mg

Posted by: Dzynlx | March 18, 2024 8:21 AM

valacyclovir 1000mg sale - order acyclovir 800mg generic buy acyclovir 400mg online cheap