I set up this blog 2 days ago. Yesterday I added content. Last night, I got SPAM comments. *sigh*
I do not (yet) want to set up user authentication for this blog, as I do not expect it to be a heavy site for back and forth communication. But I also do not want to get exciting emails that someone wants to chat with me about something I find interesting, only to find some exciting opportunity that is not fit for conversation in this venue.
As with most of my web based problems, I went and complained to Craig. He found the WordPress plugin for reCAPTCHA. I have been wanting to do something with reCAPTCHA for a while now, but I have not had a reason. reCAPTCHA is one of those “prove you are a human by tying in the word hidden in the squiggle above” things. The nice thing about reCAPTCHA is that it is doing a good deed every time you use it. The words that you type into it to prove your humanity are used to digitize old books that OCR software is having a problem with.
Everyone (but the spammers) wins.
The wordpress plugin can be found at:
December 5th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
This is a test post to make sure that the above mentioned reCAPTCHA stuff is working. Lets hope this simple step really does get rid of the SPAM
December 5th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
And this is an iPhone test to make sure the new auto stuff does not break that either.
December 6th, 2007 at 11:52 am
This is a fantastic idea that I have never come across before. Even more reason for me to switch over to wordpress as you have done.