[SATLUG] Seeking robot immunity in my feedback form

[Sexton, Art, ISD]

In a perfect world, I too would hate CAPTCHAs.  However, administrating
a blog that has just moderate traffic, I find myself deleting about 20
comments per day and that is WITH CAPTCHAs.  Without them, I was getting
hundreds per day.  I even have certain words banned from the comments
section (it is a real estate blog so I see no reason for someone to
comment using the word viagra for instance).  

Most of the comments I end up deleting are ones that I would have a hard
time finding ways to ban, such as spam for mortgage loans which could be
relevant on a real estate blog.

Anyway, the blog software I am using has a RBL for comments and CAPTCHAs
and that much still gets through.  So I completely understand when I am
asked to deal with them.  My suggestion would be to use audio if
available and to give the person a way around the CAPTCHA, such as
sending you an email to post as a comment.

Just my 2 cents, but anyone who has a better idea about how to solve
this issue I would love to hear it.

Art Sexton



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