July 22, 2004
Combating Blog Comment Spam
As mentioned previously, I've recently become a victim of Blog Comment Spam, even though I maintain a journal. I had planned to implement some form of anti-spam measure at my leisure, but since my initial complaint post I've been barraged no less than four more times. Immediate action was needed.
My good friend Andy commented that Wil Wheaton's blog sports a CAPTCHA Turing Test, the origin being BlogSpam.org's solution #4, a Movable Type hack by James Seng. To combat Blog Comment Spam here, I have both upgraded MovableType to obtain TypeKey account support, and implemented the above CAPTCHA. I've even hacked it up a bit so that registered TypeKey accounts can post without fulfilling the CAPTCHA. I'll post my implementation soon in case others want to use it.
Comments
It's supposed to have been all gray for quite some time.
![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blainekahle.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at 23 July 2004 09:30 (-06:00)Aye, but it seems to have changed since then. Up until this recent change, it used to look like this.
Guess I didn't comment on my own journal enough to notice. Must be that the new MT comment templates support the global stylesheet, while the old version didn't.
at 23 July 2004 12:37 (-06:00)
That's dead sexy.
I just noticed the formatting of the individual entry pages and this comment pop-up changed a bit - all gray with a bit bigger text. Was this change intentional or am I missing a style sheet?