Sinjo » plugin http://blog.sinjakli.co.uk Blogging is just a lesser form of productivity Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:50:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stopping the inevitable comment spam http://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2009/07/21/stopping-the-inevitable-comment-spam/ http://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2009/07/21/stopping-the-inevitable-comment-spam/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:43:02 +0000 Sinjo http://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2009/07/21/stopping-the-inevitable-comment-spam/ Continue reading →]]> While it remains to be seen if this works, I’ve just come across (well, more of a deliberate search) what seems to be a reasonable way to reduce comment spam. It adds a quick maths (not “math” as the plug-in author erroneously suggests) question to the Comments section which must be correctly answered in order for the comment to be posted. Akismet seemed reasonably good at catching spam, but I’m hoping this should properly keep the comments section clean.

http://www.herod.net/dypm/ to download it (comes with full setup instructions). Also yes, I am tempted to “sed s/math/maths/” the source. :P

EDIT 22/07/2009: Turns out it does something else to annoy me. The box moves itself about if you turn Javascript on/off, looks like someone decided it was okay to fix the layout with the *worst method  ever* (yes, this problem does override the Enlgish language pedantry from before).

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