{"id":107,"date":"2005-05-26T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/08\/thinking-of-trying-captchas\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T23:09:43","slug":"thinking-of-trying-captchas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/05\/26\/thinking-of-trying-captchas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of trying CAPTCHAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to deal with an even 100 (!) spam comments posted to this weblog, mostly for medications promising endless nights of passion and fullfillment.  At least that&#8217;s a nice change from my e-mail spam, which has recently focussed on variants on the classic Nigerian oil scam.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to some of the new features in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> 1.5 it wasn&#8217;t terribly difficult to do, but it&#8217;s still a pain and certainly annoys.  There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gudlyf.com\/archives\/2004\/06\/07\/wordpress-hack-authimage\/\">WordPress plugin for CAPTCHAs<\/a> that I should look into.  (CAPTCHAs are the weird graphics that some sites use to ensure that you&#8217;re a real person.  They have letters in strange shapes and angles that are semi-difficult to recognize automagically.  See a <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\">pharyngula<\/a> comment page for an example of this.)  But updating our blogs to 1.5.1 will have to come first and blah and blah and blah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Spam sucks.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to deal with an even 100 (!) spam comments posted to this weblog, mostly for medications promising endless nights of passion and fullfillment. At least that&#8217;s a nice change from my e-mail spam, which has recently focussed on variants on the classic Nigerian oil scam. Thanks to some of the new features &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/05\/26\/thinking-of-trying-captchas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking of trying CAPTCHAs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-1J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":260,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/20\/captchas-rock\/","url_meta":{"origin":107,"position":0},"title":"CAPTCHAs rock!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"20 Nov 05","format":false,"excerpt":"The CAPTCHAs seem to be working really well. I haven't had a single piece of comment spam since I installed it, and several \"real\" people have been able to leave cool comments (so we're not keeping the good people out). It's a little weird to not have all the spam\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/15\/we-have-captchas-i-think\/","url_meta":{"origin":107,"position":1},"title":"We have CAPTCHAs! (I think)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 Nov 05","format":false,"excerpt":"First, my apologies for the lengthy silence. Things have been very busy, and I wiped out pretty hard on my bike two weeks ago (all is well now...more later...maybe?) and that slowed a lot of things down at a time when I really couldn't much afford it. Sigh. 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