A new anti-spam tool
March 9th, 2005
This is pretty cool. It’s a movabletype plugin that makes sure actual keys were pressed in the text field. So real comments get through, but spambots are rejected. It’s a Turing test that the user doesn’t even know they’re taking! The only real problem I see is that it might stop some blind readers from commenting if they’re using a non-javascript braille browser. But most of the anti-spam tests (of the “type this word into the box” type) defeat the blind; at least this one has a chance of letting them comment.
I wish there was a 2.661 version. I should probably upgrade to MT 3.0 anyway.
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