Comments on: Admin: Anti-Spam Images for Leaving Comments

By: Chris Holdheide

Chris Holdheide — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:21:58 +0000

Nickel
Great!
Captcha seems to be a hassle but I can understand with all the spammer out there.
Thanks for letting me know.

By: nickel

nickel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:51:31 +0000

Christopher: I’ve actually come up with a better solution, so there’s no need for the captcha anymore.

By: Christopher Holdheide

Christopher Holdheide — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:34:12 +0000

I just placed a comment and I was not asked to do any captcha. I don’t know if you implemented yet.

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:52:16 +0000

Nickel, you may be using this already, but I found YAWASP to work very well against comment spam and without CAPTCHA.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:50:46 +0000

Testing – yes, working – by the way, love your blog. I read it everyday. )

By: LiveWellSimply

LiveWellSimply — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:42:06 +0000

Captcha’s are great in theory, but I’ve found that most people over 40 have a very difficult time reading them and have an even worse time figuring out what they are for

By: jim

jim — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:28:39 +0000

Looks good (maybe)

By: nickel

nickel — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:40 +0000

Testing new anti-spam measure.

Edit: Okay, captcha is gone for now, and real comments seem to be getting through. Still not sure how effective this is at stopping spam.

By: Double Journey

Double Journey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:56:03 +0000

I tried a similar thing on my blog a while back and got feedback that it confused some people. Not saying that will happen to you, but it did happen to some of my readers. Figured I would let it go and let Askimet do its job. So far, I haven’t had too much to deal with.

By: Nehal

Nehal — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:46:53 +0000

There’s another way you can do this. Include a honeypot form element which does not get displayed (hidden via CSS) on a browser. If your comment submission script detects data in the honeypot field, it knows it is from a spambot and it is simply discarded.

By: Ron@TheWisdomJournal

Ron@TheWisdomJournal — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:47:42 +0000

Testing…testing 1, 2, 3. Yep, looks okay to me.

By: EN

EN — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:57:28 +0000

Some times when I enter the word correctly it asks me to enter it again. Might be just a glitch on my side though.

By: nickel

nickel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:42:43 +0000

Good question… I’m using Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam (link).

By: Living Within Your Means

Living Within Your Means — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:35:58 +0000

Hi Mr. Nickel – Just wanted to say that it seems to work (well, if you get this comment then it does). I’ve been thinking of installing something similar or perhaps coding something like it – can I ask, what plugin is it (if wordpress)? thanks…