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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Mew

I did away with Blogger's comment authentication a while back, and since then I can count on the fingers of one Twix packet the number of spam attacks I've had. Before I turned it on, I was getting quite a few. My theory is that enough people implemented authentication to act as a kind of herd immunity, making it non-viable for the spammers to continue.

Fingers crossed, but if the spammers do come back I'm gonna look to implementing kitten-based authentication, cos who could object to a little game of spot-the-kitty before commenting? :-)

One of the main problems of Blogger's system is that it's not accessible to the blind, which I suppose is true of this system too. That's easily remedied though, just make them mew!
Debbie Huggins  Too bad they could'nt be hamsters.
But otherwise it would be fun to use. 
Becky  Well, in a perfect world, obviously Debbie. ;-) 
Fairly-Odd  I'm guessing that maybe Blogger is doing a little more on the backend to stop blatant comment-bot attacks. I have actually seen an increase lately in attempted comment spam. The captcha always saves me, but I have other evil methods in place should that fail... ;-) 
Karol Cross  Surely heres another ideal opportunity to use all that Flickr api stuff (ala your world famous Hamster Sudoku) and pull off what ever pix you want to authenticate with? 
Becky  That's a great idea Karol! :-)

"Flickrcaptcha"

Unfortunately because you commented about it on MY website I own the intellectual property for the idea. Read your small print. ;-)

What's going to be particularly galling for you is that I'm too lazy to write it. :D 
Tiffany  OMG USE THE KITTENS YEY.


....um, sorry...I just happen to love kittens. 
Stephanie Rowe  google are finally doing something about accessible captcha immages.
well, their looking for someone to check over their products to see if they are accessible. so hopefully... in a while, their'll be talking captcha immages on blogger.
sorry bex, you won't have to use your mewing kitties. lol. sweet idea though. 
Karol Cross  Dam! There go my royalties! :o(

But surely there are enough kittens on the net already, we need more hamsters! 

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