Fallen Tech Blog

As most people with a blog know, something that's all too common, is comment spam. I got a steady 5 or so in the first week of starting my blog. In fact, it's gotten to the point that I'm getting approximately 10 a day!

This is not a nice problem so I decided to introduce a solution of sorts.

Follow up:

Like so many others, my solution was a turing test image (wikipedia.org). While this solution looks perfect on the surface, there is the issue of text only browsers, people who may be visually impaired, and screen readers. Because of these, I've implemented this system reluctantly and temporarily.

While developing my version of this, I started to investigate others implementations. I was amazed to discover how many truly flimsy versions there are out there. Most solutions try to use all sorts of strange backgrounds with solid colour foreground text. This seems a little silly to me because a program can easily extract this single, unique, coloured text.

Anyway, from now on when making comments, you will find that if you aren't registered, you will have to enter the turing test text. I hope to find a better solution for this spam issue in the future that will still allow people using screen readers and the like to leave comments.

Anyone who finds this greatly inconvenient or perhaps wants to know my methods etc, just let me know.