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November 8, 2006 / 3 Comments

Administrivia: Captcha added to commenting . . .

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This is something I had really wanted to avoid, but, as we are by now getting hundreds of spam comments every day, I have added a captcha function to the comments panel. In addition to quarrying your mind for every gem of brilliance, you will have to type in a six-digit number prior to previewing or posting a comment. In principle, I could just trash all the spam comments, but Akismet, our spam catcher, snags a few true comments in error. It wasn’t the quantity of spam comments that was proving to be a problem, but going through them several times a day to make sure no genuine comments got dumped. Anyway, as much as I hate doing this, we’re stuck with it for now…

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  2. John K says:

    What program / plug-in did you use for this? Is it a wordpress plug-in?

    Thanks.

    November 14, 2006 — 9:43 am

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    Greg Swann says:

    > What program / plug-in did you use for this? Is it a wordpress plug-in?

    Filosofo Comments Preview. Does the previewing and offers the captcha as an option. Yes, WordPress plug-in.

    November 14, 2006 — 12:30 pm

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