Death to Spammers
The comment spammers are driving me nuts today. I may have to escalate the war. Possible options include forcing you to use a Captcha (which somewhat annoys me when I have to do it on other people’s sites) or requiring commenters to formally register (which REALLY annoys me and I never do it on other people’s sites). Any other ideas? Would either of those strategies keep you from commenting here?
Afterthought: Hmm, what about putting a time limit on how often you can comment? Would, say, an enforced one-minute wait between comments suck too much? Might even cut down on some of the double posts, I guess…
rob
February 19, 2007 — 10:26 pm
Not much going on here today sven(random five digit number) amy’s doing the time limit (I think comments close after 30 days on her blog,) I’ve found that our unstable network connection cut down on the spam…
miftik
February 20, 2007 — 12:07 am
My thoughts, start with a time limit and if you continue to have problems, then go to a captcha (which I hate too). If it continues to get out of hand then go to registrations.
yazzy
February 20, 2007 — 8:36 am
Recently, I’ve had trouble with trackbacks. A time limit has fixed most problems. captchas are just a pain.
Kris
February 20, 2007 — 8:42 am
Actually I already close old posts after two weeks, and that catches a ton of them. It’s just that now they seem to be going after the recent ones. 🙁
I might try the mandatory time limit and see how that goes.
Jenny
February 20, 2007 — 2:47 pm
Time limit sounds like a plan. I don’t think patience their forte.
Kris
February 21, 2007 — 10:20 am
Okay. I’ve had a talk with the Snook and it looks like a time limit is actually harder to implement than I thought. A lot of these jerks use a different IP address for every comment, so I don’t really have any way of telling that it’s the same “person” submitting the comments. So for now, I’ve got for simplified “captcha” of sorts – i.e. a really stupidly simple question that you have to answer. I know this means six extra characters typing for you guys, and I’m sorry about that. We’ll see if it cuts down on the problem…
jussi
February 21, 2007 — 10:48 am
Sorry Kris, but what orange you mean, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_color
It’s hard to know what orange you mean.
Kris
February 21, 2007 — 11:21 am
Har har, jussi. 🙂
eileen
February 22, 2007 — 7:27 am
ooooh, colour! look who’s spelling like an Aussie/Brit!
Kris
February 22, 2007 — 7:35 am
Eh, I’ve picked it up on some words, mostly the ones I use in the shop. Because otherwise everybody gives me shit when I mess them up. 🙂