{"id":616,"date":"2006-11-08T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2006-11-08T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T14:24:18","slug":"administrivia-captcha-added-to-commenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/616\/administrivia-captcha-added-to-commenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrivia: Captcha added to commenting . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I had really wanted to avoid, but, as we are by now getting hundreds of spam comments every day, I have added a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\" target=\"_blank\">captcha<\/a> function to the comments panel. In addition to quarrying your mind for every gem of brilliance, you will have to type in a six-digit number prior to previewing or posting a comment. In principle, I could just trash all the spam comments, but Akismet, our spam catcher, snags a few true comments in error. It wasn&#8217;t the quantity of spam comments that was proving to be a problem, but going through them several times a day to make sure no genuine comments got dumped. Anyway, as much as I hate doing this, we&#8217;re stuck with it for now&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I had really wanted to avoid, but, as we are by now getting hundreds of spam comments every day, I have added a captcha function to the comments panel. In addition to quarrying your mind for every gem of brilliance, you will have to type in a six-digit number prior to previewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":304,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/304\/pre-akismetization-inoculating-weblogs-against-comment-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":616,"position":0},"title":"Pre-Akismetization: Inoculating weblogs against comment-spam . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is completely inside baseball stuff for webloggers running the Akismet anti-comment-spam plug-in. If that ain't you, you can safely press on. Now then: Akismet doesn't kill spam, of course, it just locks it up it in secret CIA prison camps hidden in friendly foreign dictatorships--no, wait... Akismet quarantines suspected\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":502,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/502\/bloodhoundblogs-wordpress-plug-ins\/","url_meta":{"origin":616,"position":1},"title":"BloodhoundBlog&#8217;s WordPress plug-ins . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Daniel Rothamel is swapping over to WordPress, and other people have told me that they are, too, so here, for canonical purposes if for no other, are the WordPress plug-ins BloodhoundBlog is currently using:Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12065,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12065\/using-captcha-to-capture-idiotic-real-estate-agents\/","url_meta":{"origin":616,"position":2},"title":"Using Captcha to Capture Idiotic Real Estate Agents","author":"Don Reedy, San Diego, CA","date":"May 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test most often placed within web forms to determine whether the user is human. The purpose of CAPTCHA is to block form submissions by spambots, which are automated scripts that post spam content everywhere they can. Somebody's Got to Stop the Stupid Okay, a bit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Flourishing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Flourishing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/flourishing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1186,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1186\/somethings-still-amiss-in-godaddyland\/","url_meta":{"origin":616,"position":3},"title":"Something&#8217;s still amiss in GoDaddyland . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Gatos in email:Just letting you know I've been trying for the past 45 minutes.Check. We seemed pretty robust earlier, but now I'm getting a legacy side-bar -- changed last November when we became a group blog. I'll look into it. My guess is that the retards are restoring from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1173,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1173\/from-mortgage-company-personal-introduction-sell-stuff-here-warm-closing\/","url_meta":{"origin":616,"position":4},"title":"From Mortgage Company: [Personal Introduction], [Sell Stuff Here], [Warm Closing]","author":"Dan Green","date":"March 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I get a lot of spam. Maybe you do, too. Usually, my filter stops them. Sometimes, it doesn't. Today, an email from \"Mortgage Company\" got through the gate. 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