In the next couple of days I’m probably going to be installing a captcha system of some sort for commenting, simply because spam comment traffic has grown so intense that I’m literally killing 100-200 spam comments a day at this point.
I don’t like the idea of having to do it, because captcha is a pain and I doubt any of you like it any more than I do, but I really, really hate the spam comments. If I’m not going to turn a profit off my site then nobody will, dammit.
EDIT: Note that this is still a “probably,” since I am holding out hope that the new build of Akismet will take care of things. But it hasn’t yet.
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Consider something like that cat capcha thing instead of the traditional and irritating “type these extremely distorted sequences of random letters” thing.
There are hot chicks looking for sex in your city: go to my website to connect with them!
I second TA’s recommendation. Looking at photos of cats and dogs really blunts the irritation factor.
But whatever you’ve got to do to save yourself the spam aggravation, we get it, and we’ll get over the hassle.
Looks like this website…NEEDS MOAR CATS.
Yeaaaaahhhhhhh
SmR, you forgot to slowly put on your sunglasses before the punchline. I might have to ask you to…
(puts on sunglasses)
…Cea-se(I Miami) and Desist.
YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
If you’re looking to get less comments, you should seriously consider piling on more barriers to entry. Perhaps you could run a credit check to prevent anonymous posts.
KITTYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
Look, just because I request more adventures of Doctor Doom and his mighty My Little Pony collection approximately one thousand times per blog posting doesn’t mean it’s spam. Each request is a unique masterpiece, a beautiful butterfly of begging which deserves serious individual consideration. Christ, I work at a community college, sometimes a little Applejack action is that gets me through the day.
How about actual registration? I’d rather do an annoying captcha once than a cute one a hundred times.
Insert obligatory viagra spam joke here.
Slowly. Then faster. Then faster….
Comments are go!
Just FYI, I’m tweaking some settings to slow down the spammers.
I second Candlejack’s reccome
Yes… Another site falls to the dark lord Inglip…
Please make sure you have an accessible version, and a way for someone to bypass if necessary.
Wait, what? You don’t like spam?
Spam, spam, spam, spam
Spam, spam, spam, spam,
Lovely spam!
Wonderful spam!
It’s been a long week.
MGK, how in the name of Hades do you pull off being a reporter and a lawyer and still keep a blog going?
Being a reporter is a full time gig and then some, and I understand being a lawyer is too.
“I’ve learned something about sleep. You don’t need a lot of it.”