Friday, November 11, 2005

Word Verification for Comments

Well - it had to happen sooner or later.

We've had to turn word verification on for comments. This adds an extra step when making a comment, as you have to manually enter the letters of a word displayed on the comments screen. This is a better solution than requiring people to register before they comment.

Why have we had to do this? Because some people insist on wrecking things for others, by automatically posting spam into blog comments. We've left the spam comment that was submitted for "Hutt Meeting at Moera Community House on 14 November." as an example.

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