Captcha Is Annoying

by justin 14. July 2009 01:26

I’m getting lots of spam here so I need to make it a little harder to post comments in an automated fashion but I really don’t want to have to add captcha.

I was just at codinghorror.com trying to submit a comment to a recent post and completely failed after half a dozen attempts due to the fact that I can’t even read the illegible, garbled captcha text. The captcha strength there has degraded to the point of being ONLY readable by spam bots. There has to be a better solution than this!

Any good suggestions?

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7/9/2009 11:36:09 AM #

My blog software is Wordpress and I just use the Akismet filtering service.  It usually does a pretty good job of filtering.

Nick Olson |

7/9/2009 1:33:04 PM #

I'll check it out and see if I can get it to work with my current blog engine.

justin |

7/9/2009 4:30:15 PM #

I make people enter my name in a box, and I even include my name in the description and spam never gets through. Bots don't know how to read english instructions, nothing special needed. Just make sure the text box has the static value you're looking for when the page gets posted.

ben |

7/9/2009 4:31:34 PM #

ben

Follow up to that last comment. This method wouldn't work on popular sites, because bots could/would put it special code just to handle that particular website. Should work just fine for most blogs though.

ben |

7/10/2009 12:35:38 AM #

I ran into an interesting concept the other day on a blog over at devlicio.us the other day devlicio.us/.../...cy-injection-in-nerddinner.aspx

I first thought it was a flash plugin, but not so... either way it instructs you in english to drag an icon into a "drop here" spot. I didn't try to see how easy it would be to hack, but thought it was different.

Jason Jarrett |

7/11/2009 9:35:52 PM #

I got one comment last night that may or may not have been spam... so Akismet seems to be doing better than not having it so far.

Justin Chase |

7/13/2009 8:23:36 AM #

Damn, just got 4 spam comments. :-/

justin |

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