Moments of Permanence - Hmm.

From: sami Date: November 20th, 2010 11:07 am (UTC) (Link)

I'm going to see how Bad Behaviour works out - if it works well, I don't have to enforce registration or require OpenID (although equipping it is a good idea).

I'm not going to use any form of captcha ever, a) because I find them really damn annoying when confronted with them myself, and b) because they render sites inaccessible to users with certain disabilities, which is something to which I'm philosophically opposed. (This is why my layout isn't optimal for my aesthetic preferences, because it is screenreader-compatible.)

But I do appreciate the suggestions.

I'm going to look at traffic generation when I've added some more actual content that's less than a year old.

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From: jackalibis Date: November 20th, 2010 11:19 am (UTC) (Link)

The thing about the captcha plugin that I linked to is that for most people, it will never show up. It's strictly conditional to enforce itself for potential spammers. I sat and tried to force it to activate with anything that I could think of for standard comments from genuine humans, and it never activated. However, it's caught several spambots in the process and have kept me from having to deal with them. If you'll go to any of the comments pages on my site, you'll see there's no captcha form visible, as it's only activated for questionable comments that it believes are spam. It might be worth looking into to check that it doesn't interfere with the site's accessibility if the spambots get out of control. I don't think that it would, considering its hidden attributes, but I'm not absolutely sure on that.

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