In case you didn’t notice, I’ve just installed the reCAPTCHA Wordpress plugin by the Carnegie Mellon University.
It uses an IFRAME as a fall back to provide its functionality when JavaScript is disabled, so if you happen to be a NoScript user and you’re blocking both JS and IFRAMEs, you know what the placeholder inside the comments frame is about.
By the way, any comments? ;)
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
The noscript+iframe version is a bit cumbersome, you’ve got to copy their “code” from a textbox to another, but it’s the price you’ve got to pay for the same domain policy I guess.
All in all, looks like a good idea.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I feel like I did my part for society just now. Although, I don’t like the copy/paste, either.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:28 am
I was sick and tired of all the comment spam hackademix used to get. The RSS for Comments for hackademix.net wasn’t as useful as I would have liked. I hope the captcha gets rid of the spam. Thank you for adding it.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 am
@Alan Baxter:
All comments are and were moderated.
Do you mean you was getting spam comments in your feed, i.e. they were published in the feeds before being moderated?
If so, it would be quite a Wordpress bug :-k
October 4th, 2007 at 2:15 am
@Giorgio:
I remembered all comments are moderated right after I submitted my mine. Of course! :)
I realize now I was talking about comments you had apparently allowed. Not what I would call comments but merely links to your article made by other sites, e.g. http://hackademix.net/2007/09/24/googhole-xss-pwning-gmail-picasa-and-almost-200k-customers/#comment-518 . Apparently comment spam is something else :-k