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.