binaryslate

My biggest daily chore with the blog has unfortunately been moderating comments as spam due to Akismet not spotting them correctly and sticking them in the ‘Akismet Spam’ list. I’ve now had to install some comment form checking like in the old days of v1, for the small extra effort required by comment posters it should be a load off my shoulders.

Akismet worked great at first but a lot of spam seems to get through now. I had assumed that if I marked those that slipped through as spam and passed them over to Akismet it would learn and catch further similar spams, but it’s not worked out this way.

I’ve installed the Did You Pass Math? plugin. How does it work you ask…

Asks the person making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove they are a human being and not some kind of robot.

e.g. What is the sum of 2 and 9?

Hopefully you’ll all not mind the extra seconds to post a comment, I actually think it only asks if you’re not logged in so regularly posters shouldn’t be affected.