beaneater.org.uk Nicholas Wolverson scribbles on his screen

Comments!


01 March 2007
(13:04)

It has been a stupidly long time since I disabled comments due to the evil spammers.

I've finally done something about it! Comments are now enabled in a more convoluted fashion. At present you must pass a text-recognition captcha, and the comment must also be approved by me. If things go well I will shortly remove the approval stage. Since I got about 50 comment spam between enabling comments with moderation and implementing the captcha (thanks CPAN), that seems here to stay.

Please leave a comment on this post so I can see it is working. Ten points for the first to break it!

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beaneater—

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Points do not mean prizes.

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dearg

Does increased feedback mean an increase in the frequency of posts?

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beaneater

Possibly. It might depend what they say.

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colin

Points always mean prizes. BTW I have twice done an incorrect captcha find some numbers/letters difficult to read.

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beaneater

I'm sorry, but you'll have to put up with that, since you succeeded in the end... At least it should only be the captcha text you have to retype. The alternative at the moment would be disabling comments, as there are about 50 comment spam attempts per day.

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A potato-like thing

This be a comment

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colin

Can I still comment even though I don't really know what you are talking about.

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