Comments | dkellis: Note to spam filters.

dkellis

Note to spam filters.

Nov 10, 2007 13:45

If you're going to use a captcha image for anti-spam purposes, MAKE SURE YOUR CAPTCHA IMAGE ACTUALLY LOADS.

rant

Comments 3

siliconhero November 10 2007, 20:52:34 UTC

Hmm...has it been doing that? I haven't had much trouble with them lately. Where is it happening?

dkellis November 11 2007, 11:16:27 UTC

Was on an anime blog. The problem was probably server load or something, and I was apparently not the only one with the problem, because they did switch to a simple math question for the anti-spam, for which I have cut them some slack.

siliconhero November 11 2007, 22:59:12 UTC

Math? Heh...well, as long as it's just stuff like 5 + 7, then I'm okay with it. It seems like it would be very easy for spambots to exploit, but if it gets more of the right comments in, it could be less frustrating than waiting for an image to load.