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CMF hates spam

Submitted by murph on 12 May 2007 - 7:50am.

So, you've probably already noticed that you have to create an account and log in in order to leave comments. That's so the site doesn't get totally jammed with spam.

Then you've probably noticed that your first comments don't show up right away. That's because spambots can create accounts too, so I screen comments for spam - once I know an account is a non-spammer, I click my "known human" box to let you comment unscreenedly.

If you've already gone through all that, you shouldn't notice any difference in the mechanism, but I've added a captcha - new user creation and comments by users not-yet-known-human now require answering a simple math problem. That's so that I don't have to delete 20 pending comments from the spam account of the day every day.

Thank you for your time.

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What about a word recognition step

Submitted by Dale on 12 May 2007 - 4:58pm.

On my much lower tech (though much lower traffic) blog, adding that plugin took my spam from annoying to nonexistent.

EDIT: I suggest this because math is hard.

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It's math rather than words

Submitted by murph on 12 May 2007 - 5:18pm.

It's math rather than words because that's what I found when I went looking for a drupal captcha plugin. (And you should only have to do it, like, twice ever, before I clear it for you. You didn't see it when you posted this, right?)

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Simple Math

Submitted by egpenet on 12 May 2007 - 11:36am.

May I use my handy desktop calculator to work out the solution to your simple math problem? Or, must I use pencil and peper? No way could I do it in my head. If I DO get the answer wrong, how many tries do I get before your "bot" ignores me?

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