March 17, 2005

Apologies to the Blind

I've added yet another spam prevention method called a "captcha" or "scode." You will notice a small image of 6 characters that need to be entered into the field below it on the comment preview page, just above the submit button. This is yet another attempt to decrease spam.

The image is ment to restrict the ability of comment bots from spamming us. Individuals, who want to take the time, still can, but the bots should at least have a really hard time of breaking in now, Lord willing.

Nothing's perfect thouh, and the downside of the captcha concept is that visually impaired people won't be able to comment on our blogs anymore. I had avoided using this trick for some time because of that reason. If you are visually impaired, please forgive this change. We hope it doesn't have to be permanent.

Thank you all for your patience over the past few weeks.

Posted by TheIdeaMan at March 17, 2005 08:50 AM | TrackBack