Wonderful spam, glorious spam…
I’ve had a smattering of people registering on the blog, despite the absence of any obvious benefit in doing so.
Well, I’ve thought of a reason now. Within a month or so of moving from Blogger.com to hosted space, I started to receive rapidly increasing levels of comment spam. I didn’t actally realise at first, because I didn’t see it- Akismet plug-in catches it all very successfully. However it gives me a minor admin nuisance in that the odd false positive gets buried in the spam area and is almost impossible to find in amongst the excrement.
Just watch the blue box in my footer to see how the number is rising. (Click on it to find out how it works, it is quite clever).
To sort this, I’m looking into plugins that do some sort of human validity test such as picking out words/numbers from an image. However, I really hate these things on other blogs (because I seem to be so dyslexic on them) so any regular who registers doesn’t have to pass the turing test on repeat visits.
Anyone else using Wordpress (hosted, not managed .com version) who can recommend a plugin that achieves this well, please let me know as there is a fair bit of choice out there.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:05 am
I don’t understand this. How am I supposed to register? I know I had to register once for Matt Wardman’s blog but a box popped up and told me to do it. I have a wordpress ID as jmb1 (I have another trial blog there) and on some Worpress blogs that’s the way I come up. But I’ve connected it to my blogger blog’s URL. Confused, but what else is new?
January 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
JMB- bottom right of the toolbar is a section called “JOIN US AND SUBSCRIBE”.
No rush, I haven’t implemented the Turing Test yet and the spam rate is dropping. (I tweaked settings so an email address was needed for comments, this may have helped).