CAPTION

We’ve suffered the attentions of some spammers recently, so I have enabled CAPTCHA service from Mollom. This works by analysing your posts to see whether it looks definitely spammy, definitely not spammy, or unable to decide—and only shows the CAPTCHA if it can’t decide. This will, I hope, reduce the annoyance factor of having CAPTCHAs added to the side. We’ll see how it goes.

Update (one day later): Though Mollom claims to have blocked 59 attempts, a couple of spams have still got through.

I have ratcheted the paranoia level up one notch: now the first time you comment, it will be queued for approval by an administrator. When they approve your comment, they can also mark you as a ‘trusted commenter’ so that future comments are posted immediately. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Administrators: You can see the approval queue by visiting Administer > Content Management > Comments. When checking a comment, you can use report to Mollom to handle spam, and tag users as trusted commenters by clicking on their name to see their profile page and then clicking Edit.