Comments on: What Ails Me http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/ Making the baby Jesus cry since 2002. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:57:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Amber http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25932 Amber Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:55:06 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25932 Thanks for the info. I tend to find captchas annoying - and I feel that anything that causes the user to expend more energy than necessary is indicative of a bad UI - but we'll see. If my session-based idea that I have swimming around in my head doesn't work, I may give it a shot. I may just do something like, the first time a person comments they have to pass my "are you human?" test, and from then on out they're allowed to post unrestricted. I can create a database table of "known users" or something. <br /> <br />Oh, and as to <code>nofollow</code>... WTF? I thought I'd coded it in there. Gah. Oh well. Thanks for the info. I tend to find captchas annoying - and I feel that anything that causes the user to expend more energy than necessary is indicative of a bad UI - but we’ll see. If my session-based idea that I have swimming around in my head doesn’t work, I may give it a shot. I may just do something like, the first time a person comments they have to pass my “are you human?” test, and from then on out they’re allowed to post unrestricted. I can create a database table of “known users” or something.

Oh, and as to nofollow… WTF? I thought I’d coded it in there. Gah. Oh well.

]]> By: Garrett http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25931 Garrett Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:32:12 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25931 And here are some <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha#PHP">PHP captchas</a> that may work for you. And here are some PHP captchas that may work for you.

]]> By: Garrett http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25930 Garrett Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:30:32 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25930 I've also seen somewhere (I forget where now) an extra field in the comments stuff where you have to answer a question (like "what are letters #4-10 in my email address?") in order to post a comment, and the site owner just changes the question randomly, or every week or two. If the commenter doesn't type "ertange" as the answer, the blog doesn't post his comment. I’ve also seen somewhere (I forget where now) an extra field in the comments stuff where you have to answer a question (like “what are letters #4-10 in my email address?”) in order to post a comment, and the site owner just changes the question randomly, or every week or two. If the commenter doesn’t type “ertange” as the answer, the blog doesn’t post his comment.

]]> By: Garrett http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25929 Garrett Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:27:13 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25929 <blockquote>A captcha (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart") is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, and Nicholas J. Hopper of Carnegie Mellon University, and John Langford of IBM. A common type of captcha requires that the user type the letters of a distorted and/or obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. Because the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is administered by a human, a captcha is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test.</blockquote> <br />Anyway, yeah, I don't see nofollow tags anywhere, but maybe that's a good thing. I like the idea, but I also think we shouldn't penalize everyone for spammers' asshattery. A lot of people find your blog via Google, and I wouldn't want you to lose that.

A captcha (an acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, and Nicholas J. Hopper of Carnegie Mellon University, and John Langford of IBM. A common type of captcha requires that the user type the letters of a distorted and/or obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. Because the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is administered by a human, a captcha is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test.

Anyway, yeah, I don’t see nofollow tags anywhere, but maybe that’s a good thing. I like the idea, but I also think we shouldn’t penalize everyone for spammers’ asshattery. A lot of people find your blog via Google, and I wouldn’t want you to lose that.

]]> By: Jen http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25928 Jen Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:52:06 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25928 <a href="http://www.peskyapostrophe.com/">Mac</a> uses Captchas. Mac uses Captchas.

]]> By: Amber http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25927 Amber Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:36:10 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25927 I already use ref="nofollow". What is a captcha? Or should I just fucking Google it? (Which will have to wait, since I'm working at the moment.) Anyway, I need to just put in some session-based checking thing that prevents people from spamming the form, but I've been too lazy to sit down and do it. I already use ref=”nofollow”. What is a captcha? Or should I just fucking Google it? (Which will have to wait, since I’m working at the moment.) Anyway, I need to just put in some session-based checking thing that prevents people from spamming the form, but I’ve been too lazy to sit down and do it.

]]> By: Garrett http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25926 Garrett Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:44:50 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25926 No, if it were spam, it'd be a random link to somebody's pharmaceuticals site, in a comment from 2003 about New York. Have you thought about using a captcha or a ref=nofollow tag, or both? No, if it were spam, it’d be a random link to somebody’s pharmaceuticals site, in a comment from 2003 about New York. Have you thought about using a captcha or a ref=nofollow tag, or both?

]]> By: Amber http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25924 Amber Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:56:33 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25924 Thanks, Bhoooze. What would I do without you? <br /> <br />And just for the record, everyone else - this is not, in fact, spam. :P Thanks, Bhoooze. What would I do without you?

And just for the record, everyone else - this is not, in fact, spam. :P

]]> By: bhoooze http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25925 bhoooze Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:42:53 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25925 http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/pain_management/default.htm?z=3074_00000_1010_00_03 http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/pain_management/default.htm?z=3074_00000_1010_00_03

]]> By: Jen http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2005/09/12/what-ails-me/#comment-25923 Jen Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:05:55 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=726#comment-25923 You need to drink gallons of cranberry juice. You need to drink gallons of cranberry juice.

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