Yup, captcha was a possible plugin choice for my Textpattern system.
But I wanted to avoid it if possible, I find them really annoying.
So I tried two alternative plugins:
- A simple link counter: more than 2 links require moderation, more
than 5 are tossed. This one also has a small list of obvious words
(viagra, porn, ...) to check for as well.
- A known spam-bot list which uses the current hot bot ip addresses
to toss spam.
Between the two of these, I looked at my logs this morning and they
foiled *200* attempts with none getting through! So that looks
promising.
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
On Oct 27, 2006, at 10:53 PM, James Steiner wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
> http://www.captcha.net/
>
> CAPTCHA(TM)s (the distorted word thingys "Completely Automated Public
> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") and other cognitive
> puzzles (pick the picture of a kitten from the 9 pictures to prove you
> are not a spambot) seem to be de riguer... though there are
> techniques for defeating them on the large scale.
>
> For a small site, just implementing a *bad* captcha can be enough to
> prevent minor/lazy spambots from visiting.
>
> Another techniques I've seen include the use of awful click-with-mouse
> javascript keypad where the numbers move around, and the numbers are
> graphics, but the code doesn't say which key is which number (its
> obfuscated), so a computer reading the webpage can't tell which
> buttons to press. Its super-duper annoying.
>
> ~~James
>
> On 10/27/06, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Wow! I just got hit with over *400* comment spams on backspaces!
>>
>> I had heard about it but had not personally experienced it. Its why
>> you get those weird and annoying "tell me what this distorted image
>> says" tickets before being able to enter your comment for forums or
>> blogs.
>>
>> So I've instituted several suggestions on this page:
>> http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Combat_Comment_Spam
>> .. but it seems a difficult problem to solve, other than simply
>> moderating every comment.
>>
>> Have any of us friamers had this happen to their sites? Any
>> interesting solutions?
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>> Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
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