Well, I guess my blog has hit the big-time. Regular, observant visitors may have noticed some “SPAM” comments showing up recently on the “recent comments” over there to the right. Bankruptcy loans and Texas Hold-Em poker are the subjects du jour. Having done a little reasearch, I believe these comments to have been placed not by humans, but by robots. The mechanical bane of mankind, I say! Well, in an attempt to “nip [this problem] in the bud”, I have implemented ANTI-ROBOT MEASURES on the comment system. This system is know in the industry as a “CAPTCHA“.
What does CAPTCHA mean? Well, it stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. You know those little boxes with the squiggly letters and numbers you are asked to fill in before you can proceed with a form on the internet? That is a captcha. It’s used to prevent robots from crawling through, say, lists of available tickets on TicketMaster. The term “Turing Test” is a generic name for any test that is capable of determining if the subject being tested has the presence of mind or intelligence. (“Intelligence” in this case means being able to think on its own, and not have to follow a set of logic rules, as robots do).
Please give the comments system a run-through, and feel free to email me if you have any problems.
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MUAHAHAHA!
…tell me about your mother, replicant.
I think there is more ways than the Captcha system to deter robots…
Like the picuture of bender — too bad he cannot push sandlewood
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Just go ahead and log everones ip’s that posts a comment. then make it so that ip adress may only post a certain number of times in a certain span of time. endo f story. and take out that dammed CAPTCHA thing. it annoys.
Well, I already DO something like that. You can’t post more than once every minute — I thought that would do it. And I already capture every IP address that posts. The problem is is that almost every rogue comment I have had has been from an individual IP address. I think it’s some sort of zombie computer network thing.
…would you suggest?