Waitin' for the spam to come rolling in
Aaron says, in the comments:
You’d better put a captcha or something on here soon. I predict that you can survive about 15 days without it before each and every post is overrun with spam comments.
Call it an experiment. I started this blog last Thursday. If by next Friday I don’t have bot spam then… well, I guess I’ll continue to be lazy. If I start to see some then I’ll know that the world has discovered my existence and put up a CAPTCHA.
I’m using Typo as my blog software, which is written in Ruby on Rails, which I know well, so theoretically I could go in and hack together my own solution. I wrote a math CAPTCHA some time ago as an experiment; maybe it’s time to dust it off.
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Math captcha?
1 + 1 = Look at this bulletin board I put up a while ago:
http://www.thebailiwick.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2
You’re probably wondering how many posts there are about gambling, discount cigarettes, porn, and stock tips. That would be 140,361. Those were made by over 3,500 illegitimate user accounts.
When was the most recent round of spam posts made? Oh, let me see, five minutes ago this evening.
It’s only a matter of time, my friend.