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Captcha Disabled

28 Sep 2006 at 14:53

David Tenser

Many visitors commenting in this blog have mentioned that the captcha plugin I’m using is unreliable so I’ve decided to disable it for now. Does anyone know of a working solution? Not using spam protection at all is not an option.

7 Comments

by Abdulkadir Topal

28 Sep 2006 at 15:07

Spam Karma is what you want. It’s THE solution: http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
by David Tenser

28 Sep 2006 at 15:30

Abdulkadir Topal: Thanks! I’ve installed it now. It complained about a GD library missing for the Captcha Check feature, so I disabled that option. I don’t know what GD is.
by Thomas Stache

28 Sep 2006 at 16:48

Isn’t Akismet ( http://akismet.com/ ) what the cool Wordpress bloggers are using (or pimping?) these days?
by Thomas Stache

28 Sep 2006 at 16:51

Isn’t http://akismet.com/ what the cool Wordpress bloggers are using (or pimping?) these days?
by Luis Villa

28 Sep 2006 at 20:22

FWIW, spam karma has decided I’m a spammer in the other thread I use akismet + bad behavior [http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/] on my fairly high-traffic blog and have no spam problems.
by David Tenser

28 Sep 2006 at 22:16

Hopefully, Spam Karma will be able to learn by its mistakes (its GUI certainly gives me this impression) pretty much like the Thunderbird spam filters. Luis, I have approved all of your comments!
by Abdulkadir Topal

28 Sep 2006 at 23:49

Actually I’m using Spam Karma for month now and it has blocked thousands of spams since without a single false positive. BTW: GD Library is a graphics Library and SK uses it to create captchas, install it if you can, ’cause it makes a pretty big difference in the results.