Comments on: Comment Registration Requirement Disabled

By: Walt

Walt — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:36:29 +0000

I had no idea those were called captchas. I’ve heard the term, but I had no idea what it meant.

Akismet has worked pretty well so far. Only a few spams have gotten through since then.

By: Jonathan Vos Post

Jonathan Vos Post — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:34:07 +0000

Good move! I’ve often wanted to post comments, but won’t even do free registrations to get the New York Times.

Instead, I’ve commened at Good Math Bad Math; Not Even Wrong; n-category cafe; and other such sites.

And posted over 1,700 times at the Online Encycloipedia of Integer Sequences; MathWorld; Prime Curios; and the like.

Hope this experiment works. If so, I’ll drop by now and then to delurk.

Best,

Prof. Jonathan Vos Post
co-webmaster
http://magicdragon.com
Over 15,000,000 hits/year

By: Tat-Yuen Hui

Tat-Yuen Hui — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:38:08 +0000

You can also use Spam Poison (http://www.spampoison.com/)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:47:10 +0000

I use a simple captcha on my own WordPress blog and I’ve seen no spam since. I never mind typing them in, either.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:33:50 +0000

I've set up Akismet. And, since this should now make us safe from spam, trackbacks -- which were disabled last year -- are now enabled again.

By: dl

dl — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:32:36 +0000

You should use Akismet, a popular anti-spam plugin for WordPress. It completely stopped comment spam in my blog.

By: Wendell

Wendell — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:46:28 +0000

I’d like to 2nd Steve M.’s comment. I’m pretty sure WordPress offers an “officially for WP” captcha-code widget or add-in or something via the dashboard(?). Over in Blogger (vile though we be) we have “comment moderation” as an option – this helps discourage what spam the captcha doesn’t catch.

Best of luck. I enjoy your musings even though I don’t understand most of them.

By: Steve Massey

Steve Massey — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:06:12 +0000

Assuming that spam does become a problem, couldn’t you use one of those Captcha code things instead – typing in a code from an image is less of a hassle than having to look up yet another username/password combo each time you get the urge to comment.

By: D. Eppstein

D. Eppstein — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:16:33 +0000

There have been several instance where I’ve wanted to comment on something here but have been stopped by not wanting to deal with registration. So thanks.