Comments on Comment Policy Updated: No More CAPTCHA

By: Gail Gardner

2010-06-30T18:18:45Z

Many WordPress bloggers are turning off the Akismet plugin because Akismet is censoring huge numbers of intelligent commentators. We were turning to captchas to reduce the hundreds of bot spam messages we’re getting hit with every day.

We are testing various Captchas and would like your input on why you decided to remove them. I recognize that even though a Captcha system has an audio option that there could be visually impaired readers who do not have speakers or whose speakers are not working.

What else can you share about why you decided to remove the captcha here and how you handle the spam problem?

By: MJ Ray

2008-09-12T08:37:55Z

Thanks for removing the eyetest. Thanks for continuing with Esperanto. And recaptcha is almost as broken as other captchas IME. Use anti-spam instead.

By: Erik

2008-09-02T08:36:08Z

Esperanto is a nice language, and a good community. Considering how easy it is to learn European languages you might as well learn Romanian, Italian and french as well if you are learning Spanish.

By: Erik

2008-09-02T08:30:35Z

http://recaptcha.org/ is nice, especially if you want to further the digitalization for archive.org..

By: reine

2008-09-02T08:27:44Z

about “Esperanto”, forget it!, the idea was great but, the world speaks English, and you’d better learn Spanish, it’s not so different!. Makes me think about Klaatu, (from the “BadApplePodcast”), who said twice that Esperanto was “LANGUAGE AGNOSTIC!!!” uuuuhhhhhhhh!. Reine.

By: Neil

2008-09-01T23:35:44Z

Wise. Very wise. The ‘cure worse than the disease’… is now cured. LOL. Wish more sites would consider such improvements.

[But yeah, now see what kind of riff-raff commenters stop by? *smile*]

Hi all!