comment spam
May 5, 2007 - 4:31pm
Grrr. If it happens again, I’m going to need to do something more serious about this comment spam. I may need to go back to requiring someone to actually be logged in to comment, but I’d like to avoid that if possible.
What’d be more annoying to our regular commenters? Required login, or one of those “type the distorted letters you see in the image” things?
As a regular commenter...
…I despise not seeing my comment right away, like when you comment and it gets sent for “approval”. It’s the thrill of graffiti, really. I don’t mind login but I generally have trouble typing even passwords that I choose. I don’t mind the distorted letters you see in the image thing at all.
And with that…do you need any prescription meds or want to buy some swampland in Florida?
Death to comment spammers
My preference would be capital punishment for comment spammers, but since that’s not practical…
Have you looked into Bad Behavior? I’m running that on my WordPress site, and it will also work with Drupal. Bad Behavior has been stopping about 250 nasty bots and comment spammers from my site per week.
I’m also using the Akismet plugin for WordPress. That takes the comment spam which gets past Bad Bahavior, flags it as spam, and automatically deletes it after two weeks. According to the Akismet site, there is aDrupal module available.
For what it’s worth, those two things have kept my site pretty much free from comment-spam.
To answer your original question, I prefer logging in than trying to figure out those image captchas. But as long as you don’t use one of those ridiculously difficult image things, I wouldn’t complain about it.
make the humans hit the button
So far the two step comment thing Brian put up on my site seems to be keeping the spam away. You have that too. I’m scared.