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Many months into this experiment I barely get 2 spam comments a month on my blog, I totally respect reCAPTCHA, but demanding JavaScript, doing some minimal test
by sams99 14y ago
Many months into this experiment I barely get 2 spam comments a month on my blog, I totally respect reCAPTCHA, but demanding JavaScript, doing some minimal tests and perhaps an amount of computation (1 sec on iPad) is the FIRST thing we should be doing http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/10/04/Spam+bacon+sausage+and+blog+spam+a+JavaScript+approach http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/10/04/Spam+bacon+sausage+...
- mikeash 14y agoAlmost any unique solution will work well for a small site, because it's not worth the effort to program a bot specifically for your system. For the longest time, my blog's comments were protected by a "captcha" that simply asked the user to type the word "elbow" into a text box. The word never changed and was not obscured in any way. Worked pretty well. Such solutions do not scale to larger web sites, though.