Random Thought of the Day
April 1st, 2008 · Notebook ·
Why do people find it necessary to add captchas to their sites only to have the comment held for moderation? I honestly see no point in this. If there is, in fact, a point, please enlighten me!
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April 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
no clue… but good question…
April 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I believe the reason is that even with permission moderation there is SO much spam and junk out there that these filters catch them before they make it to the permission point as an automated courtesy to blog owners. I know on my blog before I installed some of those filters (although I don’t use any “type what you see” stuff) I’d get hundreds of junk and spam comments a day to sift through and disapprove. Now I only see one or two a week and the rest automatically get trashed.
Hugs,
Holly
April 1st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I wonder why CAPTCHA is used at all, its is horrible for user interface.
There are better ways to check if people are human. One of my favourites is presenting a collage of small pictures of cats with one dog, and asking the user to click the dog
April 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I always thought the “moderation” was to keep the jerks out.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I am right there with you, Jenny. I like Aunt LoLo’s idea though..
No one likes a jerk.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I’ve tried everything and the jerks just kept coming back. I just leave it open now.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I have to agree, that doesn’t make any sense at all.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 am
I have spam comments, at least 20 a day. I also have haters and trouble makers.
Reply: Well I could see that but making people do both just to keep out the “jerks”? It’s just a little much. I can see just the moderation…
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
Could be a control thing, or maybe folks forget (don’t know ?) to modify the settings.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 am
I’ve always wondered that as well
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
I had to figure out what a capcha was at first. ~_~ I don’t really see the point in it either. There are so many diff filters that catch spam and delete them for me that i wouldn’t put one on my site. Cause i admit, it’s annoyng to enter them just to comment. ./shrug but i’m also 9 kinds of lazy some days.
btw, i hadn’t been here in a few weeks. I’m liking this new layout. very fresh and springy ^^
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I don’t have a captcha but I used to get over 100 spams a day…I installed Akismet and it stopped it.
It was the greatest thing….
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Hi there!
Oops, I’m sorry. I just noticed that I had a comment waiting in moderation on my website and then came back to read you and saw this. If I was the reason, I”m sorry…
First time commenters have to be approved on my blog. And I also have captchas because I hate SPAM. So whatever it takes, I will do it. I had a pervert email me with some sexual remarks about one of my baby’s picture so now I’m veryyyyyyy cautious about who leaves me comments and who views my pictures.
So I’m sorry… I know it can be irritating.
Reply: Nope you aren’t the reason. I’m talking “in general”.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I don’t know about you, but even with my spam blocking plugins 5-10% slip through each week. That’s around 100 comments between all my sites that I’d have to go back through and delete..
Then again, I don’t use captcha (too easily foiled and catches more humans then bots) and I check my moderation queue at least twice a day.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
I rarely (if ever) have spam slip through to be published on my blog. Interestingly enough, I use neither captcha or comment moderation - I just use Akismet
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 am
I just read somewhere that some spammers or “Black hatters” as they call themselves already know how to break a captcha, so I wonder if it will be of any use for much longer. For now I think the combination of Akismet & comment moderation is best.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
There is automated spam that can solve most captchas but there are also human spammers who can solve them too. I use a math question but every now and then a spammer gets past - which is why I also use Akismet on top of it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
My software sometimes asks users for captchas and sometimes it doesn’t - I’m not sure how it differentiates. But at least the captchas prevent me from even having to go through and delete the junk!
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
your pain is my pain. captcha must go
April 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I don’t like the control comments thing either. My spam filter is pretty good so why does it matter if I say ok or not. I wub comments.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I like blog hopping. I only wish I had more time but then I also joined the “Blog Guilt Free” and it’s wonderful. There is only one blog and no guilt at all to the fact that there isn’t any time to blog another one.
So, I am guilt free whenever I blog hop…about once a month. HoooRaaaaa.
As for moderation: I am right there with the spam that slip through so they sit, until I get can finally get to my comments..oh and let me tell ya, I am always so happy when one hopper hops in.
Toast!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:43 am
In my case, a CAPTCHA is in place to block spammers. The moderation catchers commenters who haven’t commented before, or commenters who use trigger words - vulgar insults and such.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:10 am
I like the trust of open comments, and just use the wonderful Akismet plugin to filter out all the bad guys!
April 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I hope my site doesn’t do that…I better check. Good point. As a fairly new blogger I’m still trying to figure all this out (and will admit I had to look up “captcha”.)