Commenting Update
As David Hopkins suggested in the Freakin Spam post comment, I have added the CaptCha plugin that uses actual text images from vintage books to make sure commentators are humans 
and not bots. By using this plugin you can help to digitize some old books. Sounds pretty cool to me, but as long as it reduces the Spam that has plagued me recently I will be more than a happy camper. I believe I first heard about the pluggin from Steli of SuperCoolSchool, but I could be mistaken.
I also am not sure if it will do anything to the page load times or anything, but I will monitor it and uninstall if I find it slows load times down tremendously.
I also just activated the DoFollow Pluggin, that I had installed a while ago, and forgot to activate…oops…I had gone into the template and changed the “No Follow” to “Follow”, but had not done it so that links left in the actual comments would be “Do Follow”. Links in the comment name url link box were Do Follow, but links left in the actual comment were “No Follow”. So activating the Do Follow plugin has enabled links in the comments to not have the “No Follow” tag. Thanks again to Clive for letting me know about the “No Follow” in the comments.
I will be monitoring links within the comments and will only allow relevant links.
Update 11/8/2007: I have deactivated the re-Captcha due to complaints. However, if the spam starts up again, I will reactivate.
Several recommendations I would like to be made while using it the Recaptcha Pluggin include:
- Must also work on placing it above the comment submit button.
- When activated, the comments do not show up underneath the individual posts, you must actually click on the comments link to see any comments that have been made on the post.
Written by Pixelhead on November 1st, 2007 with 7
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