Using reCAPTCHA to combat comment spam
Posted on November 1, 2008 at 12:11pm | 4 comments
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.
So now everyone will get a CAPTCHA? How exactly is that better?
It’s better than Mollom because it works. It’s better than Akismet/Defensio because I don’t have to check the moderation queue.
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.)
Welcome back Delmer.