Using reCAPTCHA to combat comment spam

I liked Mollom because it stopped spam and didn’t leave anything for me to moderate.

Unfortunately, when it triggered a captcha for suspicious posts those people were having trouble.

I’m now using reCAPTCHA. I’ve seen it on a lot of sites and didn’t realise until today there was a WordPress plugin.

I recall checking it out several months ago and thought it was too complicated to install. It’s very easy now.

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I'm a 43-year-old father of four, commuting between work in Adelaide and my family in Mount Gambier, South Australia.
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4 Responses to Using reCAPTCHA to combat comment spam

  1. Dries says:

    So now everyone will get a CAPTCHA? How exactly is that better?

  2. Michael says:

    It’s better than Mollom because it works. It’s better than Akismet/Defensio because I don’t have to check the moderation queue.

  3. delmer says:

    I’d not wanted to complain a second time about Mollum (yes, not wanting to complain to people in other countries makes me a special American), but it was refusing me again last week.

    When it wouldn’t let me post I thought I was doing something wrong and tried several different times to make it work. (Thinking it was my fault, once more, makes me an uncommon American.)

    The new one works fine and I’m barely concerned at all that others are inconvenienced. (It’s all about me — typical American.)

  4. Michael says:

    Welcome back Delmer.

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