[Sam]

How do you go about preventing spam on your forum or blog? I tend to use Akismet for blog comments as well as captchas. Akismet is a little heavy - handed for forum posts though. Plugins which stop known spammers at signup tend to be pretty effective as well.

[DreekLass]

I don't use anything external. But I would suppose that that would depend upon which blogging platform you have gone with. With blogger, I have the comments set to my approval. if I don't approve comments, they do not get published.

[thisnthat]

I don't like captchas, so I figure visitors won't either. I use Akismet, and it seems okay to me. What issues do you have with it?

I'll have to look into those plugins.

[oldfriend]

I use Askimet and pre-approve all comments.

Oldfriend

[Alexandoy]

I advise you not to use captcha. If this site uses captcha I'm sue the attendance will drastically go down. I, for one, is irritated by the captcha and there are sites that I left because of that.

[DreekLass]

Captchas are one of the most irritating things about the internet, in my opinion, especially when they are picky about lower case and upper case, or overly convoluted. I don't think I'd ever use them.

[oldfriend]

I advise you not to use captcha. If this site uses captcha I'm sue the attendance will drastically go down. I, for one, is irritated by the captcha and there are sites that I left because of that.

You guys are tough on Captcha's .

I just never had that much problem dealing with them.

Oldfriend

[oldbuddy]

I love Captca's if they work, it beats the heck out of dealing with spammers.

[DreekLass]

Well, yes, you guy are right. But as someone who has to do captchas on other websites, I can say that they are some of the most irritating things ever. They will, however, prevent spam, so they definitely do their job. Some of them are incredibly difficult to get right though. I would not mind so much if all of them were easy to do.

[oldbuddy]

There are a variety of Captcha systems that vary from one click to impossible to read, but it's up to the website owner which system they use. If you find one that is near the impossible side, it's surprising how easy it is to get it changed. After all, the website owners ultimate goal is not to drive people away. I have been involved in effecting such a change for one website I still frequent and complete easy Captcha's every day.

[DreekLass]

There are a variety of Captcha systems that vary from one click to impossible to read, but it's up to the website owner which system they use. If you find one that is near the impossible side, it's surprising how easy it is to get it changed. After all, the website owners ultimate goal is not to drive people away. I have been involved in effecting such a change for one website I still frequent and complete easy Captcha's every day.

Some forum owners will employ captchas when users sign up, and I find that of all captchas forum registration ones have always been the hardest to get right for me.

[oldbuddy]

There are a variety of Captcha systems that vary from one click to impossible to read, but it's up to the website owner which system they use. If you find one that is near the impossible side, it's surprising how easy it is to get it changed. After all, the website owners ultimate goal is not to drive people away. I have been involved in effecting such a change for one website I still frequent and complete easy Captcha's every day.

Some forum owners will employ captchas when users sign up, and I find that of all captchas forum registration ones have always been the hardest to get right for me.

At least you only need to complete them once. If I find a really hard one, I just keep asking for a new puzzle until I get one I can solve. They don't seem to count them.

[thisnthat]

I don't mind completing one captcha for registration. The sites that throw one at you for every post? NO. They are annoying, too hard to see/decipher most of the time, and they are just way too time consuming. I constantly have to refresh to get a new one until I can make it out. No thanks.

I wouldn't even mind one at the beginning of each session, really, just not every. single. post. The ones I've seen that do that though, usually have ads within the captchas. I recommend not doing that.