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Surely it would reduce the number of comments as it still loses some. As the author says - a CAPTCHA solution reduces comments significantly, lets say by 50%.
by jkent 18y ago
Surely it would reduce the number of comments as it still loses some.
As the author says - a CAPTCHA solution reduces comments significantly, lets say by 50%. So if Mollom marks 10% as spam, and half of those are actually legit, 2.5% of comments are lost.
But that's not a bad price to pay for getting an hour of your life back a day.
- jamesbritt 18y agoDoes it simply discard them, or leave them someplace for approval? I'm using Akismet on my blog, and comments considered spam are held in limbo where I can approve or delete them. No comments should be lost unless I accidentally misjudge a flagged comment.
- technoguyrob 18y agoNo, you don't understand. It prompts for a CAPTCHA after the user has submitted his text. So if I just wrote out a paragraph of a comment, and submit, I wouldn't want to have that paragraph NOT show up just because I'm too lazy to enter the CAPTCHA. I think the people who won't enter the CAPTCHA will be far smaller with this method.
- briansmith 18y agoCAPTCHAs have become difficult and frustrating. They definitely discourage participation, regardless of how they are integrated into the system.