Does this captcha look familiar??
You see them when you are buying online products and are signing up for various forums.. Although recently they have started appearing on Wordpress Blogs!! Could this be slowing down your readers opinions?
Think about it. Your viewers are on your blog and have to enter a stupid captcha form that tests their visual skills before they can submit their opinions. Why should they even bother? With a blog being created every second* (*According to BBC and Technorati’s statistics), there surely must be another blog that offers the same type of content that you do.
Instead of trying to screw spam-bots using the Captchas, why don’t you just install Wordpress’s default spam filter.. Askimet? Then you don’t hassle the “Real” commenter’s that have said their piece on your article, and the ones advertising free viagara are blocked. (Editors Note: For putting the word Viagara in this post, I have no doubt that I will recieve hundreds of bots commenting on this post, trying to obtain links through my ‘no-follow removed’ policy 
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So just a warning to everyone that uses the image captchas.. not the ones that ask “Is the sun hot or cold?” - those are all fine and just require a 3 letter answer, don’t expect me to leave my opinion on what you wrote. I just don’t have the time to figure out the screwed up words in your annoying spam filter 
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9 Responses to “Don’t Hassle Your Visitors!!”
I would have to say that captcha is slowing down on the comments. I know when I come across them I tend to move on. Keep it simple and thingsd tend to flow.
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This is absolutely true , Askimet does a very decent job of catching spam and all you need is a wordpress key , which is free to activate it.
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I use the wp-spam-free plugin - so it blocks a lot of automatic junk. I use askimet as well - and then still i have to manually remove a few more.
Akismet has done wonders for my blog. I look for various plugins that will enhance my reader’s experience as I want to encourage them to leave a comment before moving on. Like you, I have CommentLuv installed.BTW, I found you via Entrecard.
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I have Akismet but it allows too many bots to leave nasty little comments about drugs on my site. Now I added a simple word verification for people and if they are really serious about commenting, they will surely understand what that is for and use it. I also use commentluv.
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@ Nishadha - Akismet is great, isn’t it??
@Matt Ellsworth - I’m surprised that you use two spam filters and still need to manually remove some.. Then again, you get these ones that say, “Great Post! I really enjoyed your post on “Title X”.” - And then they leave their link inside of their name, getting a free link back to their website when you use No-follow removed. :S
@ Matt Keagan - Speaking of which, if you want some cool plugins, just scroll back a couple posts and you’ll find some of my “Unique Wordpress Plugins” posts.. Just if your interested though of course. I like entrecard, but not their new advertising program, it sorta defeats the purpose of dropping.
@ Blue Licorice - I went to your blog and saw the word verification, which is completely alright considering that it is three letters. This post was more directed to the blogs who use that “Spam Captcha” that has two words that are distorted with lines through it.
Very true indeed and a point well made. Its really sad that I have to do this on Digg too to share something that’s good. I have put in Akismet on my blog and that does take care of all spamming. Wonder why people dont use it instead of other visitor harrassing tools like captcha. Hope a lot of people read this blog and understand what a captcha or something similar does.
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I use Akismet as well.
Can’t figure out why others get such great pleasure from spamming blogs. They must know in the back of their pea brained mind that it will be deleted.
At times I end with spam that goes on like forever. Loads of them, takes forever to scroll through them. I skim them cause somewhere in the midst there may bbe a comment worth keeping
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I completely understand the point of this post. But as the commentluv link to my blog will reveal, I had recently been removed from the google index due to comment spam links finding their way into some of my blog’s template pages. For the day or so my sites winked into oblivion, i kept thinking about all the hours of hard work gone down the drain.I don’t use captcha….the wp spamfree seems to be doing the job.But I’m definitely once-bitten twice-shy!