Comments on: Yay Akismet

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:36 +0000

@Jules:
That's one of the beauties of CFFormProtect (http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/index.cfm) – no Captcha, Akismet enabled, fully configurable and now a part of BlogCFC ;-)

By: Jules Gravinese

Jules Gravinese — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:24:33 +0000

Personally, I put in a css-hidden field. Bots fill out all fields (even display:none), humans do not. It's a VERY simple test. Zero user interaction, 99% efficiency.

By: barneyb

barneyb — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:36:13 +0000

@Jules reCAPTCHA doesn't bother me as much when I run into it on the web, since I know it's actually useful for something, and I rarely am unable to answer correctly. But still something I'd never put on anything I'm in control of. There are just too many other alternatives that don't punish the users of the site.

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:10:37 +0000

@Rob,

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By: bill

bill — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:55:56 +0000

I'm with @rob. I like CAPTCHA. I think it ranks right up there with programming in Unlambda and repeatedly trying to kick myself in the nuts, at the same time.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:49:22 +0000

I don't know what you're talking about mate, captchas are awesome and so user friendly.

Punish the visitor, they like it.

By: Jules Gravinese

Jules Gravinese — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:45:50 +0000

So.. tell us how you really feel :) haha

Have you looked at reCaptcha? It's the same verification idea but it uses actual words (2 of them). So even if they are mangled it's still really easy for the human brain to figure it out.

"reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. [...] reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA."
http://recaptcha.net/