Upgrade This Site With Anti-Spam Maths Captcha
I've upgrade this site to Leonardo 0.7.0 which I'm about to release.
It includes an enhancement to the comment module by Bryan Lawrence that provides for a maths-based captcha to help prevent comment spam. Basically you'll need to do a simple addition to post a comment.
Hopefully this will stop the literally thousands of automated spam comments I receive each month.
Comments (5)
dayspot on March 14, 2006:
Hi there,
We are very interested in Python and its web applications. While looking forward to this new release of Leonardo, we are wonder whether it supports unicode/Chinese URL (e.g.upgrade_this_site_with_anti-spam_maths_captcha in Chinese Characters). Or do you have some pointers?
Sorry to be a little bit OT.
Best regards,
msh210 on March 20, 2006:
I don't get it. It asked me "What is 9+8?" and I wrote "11" but it wouldn't accept that. What did I do wrong?
Durval Menezes on April 2, 2006:
Nice implementation! A good idea would be to add graphics (i.e, render a picture with the arithmetic question instead of using ASCII as above).
Anker on June 11, 2007:
"What is 9+8?" and I wrote "11"
LOL!
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Author: James Tauber
Fuzzyman on March 14, 2006:
I recently implemented a few changes to my guestbook to reduce automated spam. (I was also getting hundreds of spam posts a day.)
It decreased the volume dramatically, down to about ten or twenty a day *manually* posted spam entries.
I think I've decided that requiring a valid email address and getting posters to verify their entry is the best way to deal with that (and banning email addresses that post spam).