Blogging & BlogosphereFriday, 19 August 2005 02:16 pm
If any of you out there have seen spam in your comments, Blogger has just released a new feature to enable “captchas” or word verification for comments, to stop automated spam. Check it out at the link below.
Blogger Help : What is the word verification option?
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Coolness! However I foresee 2 problems:
1. people who are genuine commenters will be put off by the word verification step.
2. spammers may be able to create programs to bypass this step. When I was in Singapore, Bruce managed to create a program so that he could bypass the verification code needed to send free smses via singtel.
1. True – extra hassle. Other than that, leave your email notification turned on, and you go in and delete them as you find them.
2. Bruce is EVIL! hahahahahah….j/k.
What Starryluvly said is true. People who wish to remain anonymous may feel especially skeptical about it.
beng: you can still remain anonymous, you just have to go through one extra step. Agreed that it’s a pain in the butt, but it will definitely help if you get a lot of comment spam. Lucky for me I don’t.
Thanks for this Mooiness
I’ve enabled it as I seem to be getting a lot of comment spam at the moment. Well okay it’s about 4-5 per post which is not that much really when you compare it to the spam I get in my email, but it’s still annoying… I hope it doesnt discourage people from posting, but I’ll try it anyway and see how it goes…
cw: no worries.
Bit old post, but thought id add to it! captcha is easly decoded now by the damn bots.
I think folks need to really begin thinking about how precisely they are stumbling onto their site in the first place, many websites such as wordpress blogs, joomla cms, and vb and so on all carry footprints for instance footer backlinks and comments these could remove easily, and it stops the crawlers being able to discover them, since they all use search engines such as bing and google to target you to start with, read up a lot more here,
Stop the comment spam
james devonton
Web Design Bournemouth