Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Comment captcha turned off!

I can't begin to tell you how frustrating it is to deal with spam bots spamming this site with comments touting the benefits of Beats headphones, luggage racks, designer gloves, perfume, porn, MLM schemes, unlocked phone deals, iphone 5 promotions, porn, money scams, diamond sales, porn and porn.
To thwart this practice, I turned on the comment captcha feature.
What a piss-poor excuse of a feature!
I had a person write me to tell me it took 10 tries to get a comment to pass the security check, so I tried it myself. Good god. What a hot mess.
Anyhow, I've turned it off.
You're welcome!

8 comments:

  1. TomWSeptember 25, 2012 at 3:46 PM

    What an entertaining and thoughtful post. Perhaps you would like to buy an iPh0ne 5 at rock bottom prices!!!

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  2. C.J. SmithSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:51 PM

    My favourite is:

    This site was... how do you say it? Relevant! ! Finally I've found something that helped me. Thanks a lot! Also visit my web-site - Therapy Now

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  3. Dan-1September 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM

    Or even: "Before visiting your site, I just couldn't get it up in the bedroom. Now, thanks to your insightful posts, I went out and bought the product and my wife and/or husband is happy all night long. Keep blogging!".

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  4. AllanVSSeptember 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM

    Captcha is a great tool. Byte, I have acres of land for sale on The Moon and Mars ... rock bottom prices for s limited time.

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  5. TomWOctober 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    @AllanVS: what if I want the top of the rocks, not the bottom?

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  6. calvinhcOctober 3, 2012 at 8:22 AM

    I can sympathise with you. I run a transit-related site and the blog gets spammed with all sorts of odd comments with typos that try to sound legit but are obviously not.

    It has been pissing me off lately that many sites use captchcas that are so blurry, that you have to refresh it a dozen times to get an image that does not have something in it that could look like five different letter combinations.

    I use a captcha that is relatively easy to get it right the first time, but the price for this is that I still get the odd spam posting, usually for some refinancing scheme.

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  7. C.J. SmithOctober 3, 2012 at 9:05 AM

    What I don't understand is that Blogger aka Google actually had a good captcha tool. This new one is awful so you felt left with no choice but to manage a ridiculous amount of Spam.
    I've been considering moving the blog to a different platform but I generate no revenue and don't feel it's worth the time or effort.

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  8. blindwheelsDecember 11, 2012 at 7:46 PM

    CAPTCHA's are totally INACCESSIBLE for blind ppl, most cannot be passed by screenreading software...
    I couldent leave comments on your site before now, a HUGE THANK YOU!!! is in store for you C.J...
    there are a FEW decent audio based ones too though, most suck, but there are a few good ones....

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