Is it time for Captcha?
I looked at my coments on my main website mentioned below (the addiction one - no spam here from me) and I had 293 spam comments to deal with that Akismet had caught.
In fairness a lot of them are borderline spam and make valid comments even though they may mention "look at my blog" or something like that. So I am torn. Would all these be better blocked by a captcha (which I don't have running) or should I take time time to look at them all?
In truth I hate to enter captcha's myself, which is why I don't have it running. It also bothers me that I may miss some good and valid comments by putting captcha on my site. A lot of the "spam" is hardly spam at all and I can easily edit it slightly and reply.
What to do, what to do?
Reply if you wish, but I guess I am just getting my thoughts down in a blog at this time.
I am the guy who enjoys talking to bums on the street (if anyone read what I wrote as a reply to someone else). They always pick me out and still talk even if I give them nothing.
I am in a quandry BUT, it may take up too much of my time if I reply to 100 or so spam comments every day.
INTP (See Ambersukai's blog)
Glyn
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Glyn, you as the administrator can accept and delete any comment, one great thing is you can also edit them. I spend the time to review all comments even those marked as spam and some borderline ones that go to trash. I find some of those borderline comments are worth keeping and it's easy to edit them to make them more readable and I also remove any suspicious looking links and end up with a comment that will help my Goggle ranking.
Good on you. I have found Akismet to work well and I supplement it using Antispam Bee as I found Akismet can be too aggressive, Antispam Bee still captures spam, but those it thinks are borderline it sends to trash rather than marks Spam. Captcha frustrated the hell out of me, so now I use No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA and have been for a while sofar really impressed by it.
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My happiness is me to administer all comments, I will do anything I want with them. Thanks for your blog