Comments on: How to avoid comment spam? http://www.paulolyslager.com/how-to-avoid-comment-spam/ Articles & Reviews on Web Design, User Experience and Usability Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:56:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Paul Olyslager http://www.paulolyslager.com/how-to-avoid-comment-spam/#comment-213 Paul Olyslager Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:22:46 +0000 http://www.paulolyslager.com/?p=444#comment-213 @<a href="#comment-210" rel="nofollow">Rene</a>: Thank you for the comment Rene. I think the text CAPTCHA is similar to Eric Meyer's solution, asking random questions. I must say that i'm impressed with the amount of questions they provide: 157.500.799. Compared to the image CAPTCHA, this version has 3 strong pluspoints: First of all it is not readable by ocr programs which is a big plus. Secondly, the combination of a unique API key and the hashed answers make this a save solution for now. A last point is that the visually impaired people have less difficulties with a logic question than with a scrambled image. As stated on the website, it also has a minor setback: what about the non-english speaking people? It would be nice that some other languages are supported as well. All in all, it is a nice trail and I do hope they continue to work on this. @Rene: Thank you for the comment Rene. I think the text CAPTCHA is similar to Eric Meyer’s solution, asking random questions. I must say that i’m impressed with the amount of questions they provide: 157.500.799. Compared to the image CAPTCHA, this version has 3 strong pluspoints:
First of all it is not readable by ocr programs which is a big plus. Secondly, the combination of a unique API key and the hashed answers make this a save solution for now. A last point is that the visually impaired people have less difficulties with a logic question than with a scrambled image.
As stated on the website, it also has a minor setback: what about the non-english speaking people? It would be nice that some other languages are supported as well.
All in all, it is a nice trail and I do hope they continue to work on this.

]]> By: Rene http://www.paulolyslager.com/how-to-avoid-comment-spam/#comment-210 Rene Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:38:57 +0000 http://www.paulolyslager.com/?p=444#comment-210 There is also text CAPTCHA. http://textcaptcha.com/ There is also text CAPTCHA.

http://textcaptcha.com/

]]> By: Jon Blackburn http://www.paulolyslager.com/how-to-avoid-comment-spam/#comment-196 Jon Blackburn Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:00:34 +0000 http://www.paulolyslager.com/?p=444#comment-196 Paul, Very informative, and a nice follow up. Thanks for the mention! -Jon Paul,

Very informative, and a nice follow up. Thanks for the mention!

-Jon

]]> By: Paul Olyslager http://www.paulolyslager.com/how-to-avoid-comment-spam/#comment-192 Paul Olyslager Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:10:37 +0000 http://www.paulolyslager.com/?p=444#comment-192 @<a href="#comment-189" rel="nofollow">Hal Brown</a>: Thank you for the reply. I've noticed that I had to approve your comment, although this wasn't your first contribution to the blog. Maybe it is because you used Hal last time instead of Hal Brown now? @Hal Brown: Thank you for the reply. I’ve noticed that I had to approve your comment, although this wasn’t your first contribution to the blog. Maybe it is because you used Hal last time instead of Hal Brown now?

]]> By: Hal Brown http://www.paulolyslager.com/how-to-avoid-comment-spam/#comment-189 Hal Brown Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:59:50 +0000 http://www.paulolyslager.com/?p=444#comment-189 This is timely and very informative considering we are all but in the holiday season. I had not thought about the 'honeypot' solution. This seems like an excellent way to pare down spam. Many people, including me are having a problem with Wordpress notification for new comments. I have always used the “Comment author must have a previously approved comment“ until the last version of Wordpress. I cannot find the answer to this, but suspect it is a server side issue. Thanks for the info. This is timely and very informative considering we are all but in the holiday season. I had not thought about the ‘honeypot’ solution. This seems like an excellent way to pare down spam.

Many people, including me are having a problem with WordPress notification for new comments. I have always used the “Comment author must have a previously approved comment“ until the last version of WordPress. I cannot find the answer to this, but suspect it is a server side issue.

Thanks for the info.

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