I've had a lot of trouble with comment spam. This blog has blocked many thousands of comment spams. And unfortunately, it's blocked a few of
Cliff's legitimate posts, too.
So I have switched to the new
captcha module for Drupal. In case you don't know, a
captcha is an automated test designed to tell humans and computers apart. It often takes the form of a graphic with letters or numbers in it -- letters or numbers than humans can read, but computers can't.
I
used this idea before with Wordpress and it was 100% successful.
So now, you can prove that you are a human right when you make a post -- and you will be told instantly if the post is accepted or not. And if it is, it appears instantly.
A lot of comment spam is arriving via trackbacks, and captchas can't be used with them, so I've disabled trackbacks for now.
I think this should make blogging a lot less annoying.
This change also applies to the other Drupal sites hosted here:
The Haskell Sequence,
Forest of the Plains, and
Rail Passenger.
Comments
Tue, 26.08.2008 15:46
On a Decwriter IV, the print h ead usually obscures the last couple of characters before th e text. There is a speci [...]
Tue, 26.08.2008 11:29
I should have warned you. It only works on wheat.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:31
John, the comment I left on th e previous post belongs up her e. Sorry.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:28
John, I tried your 'TERM=escpt erm telnet localhost > /dev/lp 0' trick and I still have wee ds in my corn field.
Mon, 25.08.2008 11:23
One of the mailing lists I'm o n was looking for one too[0]. Lord only knows what evil they want it for ;-) When I [...]
Mon, 25.08.2008 08:46
On a teletype the typebar move s out of the way immediately a fter each character is printer . You can see what you a [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 23:12
Ah, the AB1 is probably the be st single best piece of machin ery I've ever owned. It has b een reliably waking me u [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 20:48
In classic ribbon type printer s the print head would jump up , print, return down, such tha t if typing slowly you c [...]