This works great at low volumes. For high traffic sites that get lots of high traffic spam…it doesn’t work at all. Legitimate comments get drowned out by a flood of spam — e.g. I have 36,000+ comments sitting in my approval queue. But, since I’ve been an advocate of open comments, I didn’t want to close things down and force people to register.
So, tougher measures are called for, and at 10:30PM PST tonight, the first piece of p*ker comment spam bit the dust. And I didn’t even need captchas. Thanks, Jeremy!
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