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Well, adding the CAPTCHA in the comments to prevent spam wasn’t such a great idea after all. It seemed to be working great - my spam was reduced to 0! But unfortunately it also has problems generating a proper image, so it was preventing legitimate comments from being created. Sorry!
And when I just about to start looking into the problem, I find out that it also has the nasty side effect of preventing trackbacks. So, I guess I won’t be using this anymore. If anyone has a good suggestion on how to best fight comment spam, please do share

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5 Responses to “CAPTCHA no good...”

Matt wrote a comment on Sun 18, March 2007

Rui- I love the theme and use it on my families website. Thanks for making it public.

Re: Spam. Have you tried the Akismet plug-in? http://akismet.com/
Its worked really well for me.

Also, could you post the a jpg of the white frame you use your banners?

Thanks, Matt

Jan wrote a comment on Mon 16, April 2007

If you want to fight commentspam, Akismet is the way to go. Just installed it a few days ago, comment spam was beyond control, and it’s zero for me now. I haven’t had any false positives either.

Volker Hett wrote a comment on Mon 7, May 2007

Rui, I too love and use your theme and I was one of those who wanted to comment but douldn’t

I’m happy with Spam Karma, it just works and never let me down on my and a friends blog.

Rui wrote a comment on Sun 13, May 2007

I’ve actually started using Bad Behavior. I’m pretty happy with it. I’m still not 100% spam free, but 99%… which is acceptable to me

Maurice wrote a comment on Thu 9, August 2007

CAPTCHA is a technique which is almost outdated