Is it time for Captcha?
Published on June 21, 2015
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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.
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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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