NOTE: There is no Catpcha here now because the new GASP Anti-Spam WordPress plugin has been released and is available in the WordPress Plugin Repository.
THIS is the ALTERNATIVE TO AKISMET that provides the SOLUTION to being Flagged as a Spammer! Spread it throughout the blogosphere and your comments will work again.
Are my regular readers know we sincerely want to make sure every commentator has their say while keeping spam to a manageable level. Since we disabled Akismet in this blog, comment spam primarily from bots has increased to 600+ on some days.
We are testing alternative ways to keep the spam out while making sure our readers comments are all getting through. We need your feedback on whether the SI Captcha Anti-spam plugin currently installed in this blog is reducing comments or preventing real commentators from commenting.
It only takes a minute to check one box to complete our poll so we will know how you feel and can share this input with other bloggers.
Please leave a comment first to make sure you can still comment here.
If you have any additional feedback comment in this post or use the contact information to let us know. We DO want to hear from you.
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Twitter: matthewacoleman
July 6, 2011 at 2:36 am
Twitter: @matthewacoleman
captchas are great…and id rather used it than what the crappy Akismet was doing..it’s a good plugin
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Twitter: n/a
July 5, 2011 at 6:01 am
Twitter: @n/a
I have always wondered how effective the CAPTCHA is…this now sheds light to me on it’s uses
It seems there were only few voters. But I don’t think a captcha will be a hindrance for us readers, as long as our comments will be published. We would understand why you do it if you say 600+ spam attacks is the thing you are dealing with.
Twitter: rfamat
April 20, 2011 at 1:49 am
Twitter: @rfamat
With GASP, captcha is not needed anymore. It effectively blocks spam comments.
Askismet is working quite well on my blogs. No issue so far.
Twitter: GrowMap
April 7, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
How do you know? It does block spam – yes. But you have no way of knowing how many potential buyers had the door slammed in their face and left forever. I do not use Akismet on any site because buyers are too hard to come by to treat them that way.
There is a MUCH better way to manage spam that takes far less time. See the tab for G.A.S.P. at the top of my blog for details.
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Thanks for shearing it
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Twitter: WebMAOhist
December 1, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Twitter: @WebMAOhist
check this out https://www.keycaptcha.com/ i think you gonna like captcha again
Twitter: apartrental.com
August 27, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Twitter: @apartrental.com
Nice post, This is one of the more readable and brief captchas, it will probably be more user friendly if it was seen from the comment box. I have not had any problems yet with this captcha, but I wonder if there will be danger of losing before you post comments and enter the code seen captcha.I hope this works for you and that your test is can bring some light into whether in fact this is a good choice. I would be very interested to know how it turns up. I appreciate the information you share with us. please continue this good work to give our readers more information, thank you all.
Twitter: websitewiz
August 20, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Twitter: @websitewiz
Since relying solely on this plugin, I occasionally get spam comments reported by email. When I visit the blog, I find that this plugin is deactivated, although it has been active. I keep my plugins updated with WPManagerDX, and it’s possible that’s the problem, but I doubt it. The plugin’s developer doesn’t know of any problem, but I’m wondering if hackers have learned to deactivate this without logging into wp-admin.
I’d be interested to know if anyone else has seen this kind of behavior.
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I checked this plug-in had issues with wordpress cache plug-ins like WP Super Cache. Any ideas if they’ve fixed that?Thanks for sharing this blog with us.
Twitter: gagantandon1
August 11, 2010 at 4:51 am
Twitter: @gagantandon1
I also heard about this problem with Akismet and I think a lot of blogs are going to move away from it soon because of how it blocks IP addresses.
I hate captcha codes sometimes i can’t read it even after refreshing, some of them are stupid to write in grey on a black background, how can we read it! And also, sometimes it said we type the wrong code even when it is right! To prevent from spammers, i recommand you using another type of plugin instead of this captcha.
Twitter: jronaldlee
August 5, 2010 at 7:04 am
Twitter: @jronaldlee
I’m not seeing any kind of anti-spam captcha, either… ???
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Twitter: GrowMap
December 1, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi James,
Sorry. I removed it because I immediately got complaints from regular commentators that they couldn’t comment.
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Twitter: TeleGlass
August 4, 2010 at 11:19 am
Twitter: @TeleGlass
Umm… was going to leave this comment so I could try the captcha, but there’s nothing here. Just a submit button, and no verification / anti-spam that I can see.
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 16, 2010 at 2:02 am
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Gomez,
I turned it off but have now turned it back on (I hope) because I ended up with 2500+ spam comments in a matter of days.
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