A few months ago, comment spam finally started being a problem on wonko.com. Up until that point I had been doing nothing more than setting a cookie to weed out automated spammers that didn't support cookies. Amazingly, that actually worked for quite a while, but the spammers eventually wised up and started supporting cookies.
My solution, since I'm lazy, was to implement the dumbest Captcha in the world: a static, unchanging image of the word "pants". The word never changes. It's always "pants". Nevertheless, I haven't had a problem with comment spam since implementing it. Go figure.
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I look forward to the day I see a "pants" captcha on Yahoo.com.
Can I steal your pants?
Great idea.. Why didn't I think of something so simple.
Can I steal your idea?.. you can keep the pants!!
Re: Can I steal your pants?
Have at it.
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or you could do the inverse. Include a field thats hidden by a little css. Then reject any post that fills it in.
you might be on to something
If you think about it, 99% of websites don't even NEED a randomly generated word. How about just changing the word every two weeks? The smaller the website, the less frequent the changes would need to be
LOL!
That is the funniest thing I've heard all day. Thanks for the laugh. (And I was thinking for a while: "Hey, that's a nice looking Captcha, I wish I could see the code he used to generate that...")
aoeu
eoau
test
hello