Comment Spam

Unless many of you have decided to start selling Viagra in your online pharmacy, comment spam has become a problem for CAAFlog. Fighting these nuisance posts is a time-consuming distraction. To alleviate the problem, I’ve installed a reCAPTCHA widget in the comment form:

comment form

If you get illegible words, you can refresh the reCAPTCHA box by clicking the refresh button.

comment refresh

reCAPTCHA doesn’t require a perfect response; it recognizes that some letters look like others. An incorrect response will refresh the comment page and your comment will be lost (the comment box will reappear empty). To recover your comment text, click your browser’s back button. You will have to refresh the reCAPTCHA box before you can continue.

For anyone interested in the technology, reCAPTCHA was profiled on NPR a year ago.

11 Responses to “Comment Spam”

  1. dreadnaught says:

    The best part of subscribing to the RSS feed of the new CAAFlog is all the interesting offers for products and services. Did not even know I needed some of this great stuff.

  2. EGNB says:

    For those who don’t do RSS, is there a way to add a sidebar that shows what posts have been commented on lately (and who the commenter is)?

  3. Question to Dreadnaught says:

    Since it’s kind of slow on CAAFLOG in the summer…..If you don’t mind me asking, who are you….I’m just curious..

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  5. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer says:

    Your technology frightens me. What is this so-called internet you speak of? Is it the same as doing the Goggle? The only spam I know of is a savory pork product packed in gelatinous goo and is simply irresistible.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Doing the Goggle will get you five to ten.

  7. John Harwood says:

    Stinkin’ Spam – what isn’t getting spammed these days?

  8. John O'Connor says:

    I would have thought that even Span had some standards . . .

  9. dreadnaught says:

    Question to Dreadnaught,

    Many thanks for your kind inquiry. I am a devoted votary of CAAFlog, tenacious defender of the great Sir Cloudesley Shovell, and midlevel military-law practitioner. (at least by MOS designation, if not by knowledge base).

    dreadnaught out

  10. dreadnaught says:

    What is the deal with the math spam protection? Is this intended to keep Marines from commenting? Please keep the aggregate of these two numbers under 20, as that represents the total number of fingers and toes we can summon to our aid to solve such formulae.

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