Do The Math

10:30 am 05/15/06

After wrestling with Spam Karma over at Big Sky Blog (and having would-be commenters frustrated by “SQL barf”), and never receiving an API key to activate Akismet, I went in search of another spam-busting tool and found this nifty one: Did You Pass Math? The plug-in requires only one file and then one-click activation; it then adds a very simple math question (such as 2 + 4) to the comment form. If you enter the correct answer, your comment is posted. If you don’t answer - or answer incorrectly - your comment doesn’t get posted. And it doesn’t require any captcha-specific files or fonts! So go ahead - leave a comment here, and let’s see if you passed math class!

by davidmsc Misc

8 comments

  1. Beep. :P

    comment by Kim — May 15, 2006 @ 10:53 am

  2. So math finally comes in handy!! E-mail me at my hotmail acct dave.

    comment by sis — May 15, 2006 @ 11:12 am

  3. I was told there would be no math. :)

    comment by CGHill — May 15, 2006 @ 1:08 pm

  4. Can I use a calculator?

    comment by MarkFL — May 15, 2006 @ 5:41 pm

  5. I’m a mathamagician!

    comment by moos — May 20, 2006 @ 10:23 am

  6. I can’t imagine this is going to be effective for very long.

    comment by Jeff — May 24, 2006 @ 5:36 pm

  7. I was attempting post to the entry about KMET and it didn’t go through because apparently 3 and 4 does not equal 7.

    comment by Papa Rah — May 25, 2006 @ 2:37 pm

  8. I wonder, over time, how effective this can be? Is it something spammers could overcome relatively easily?

    JAB

    comment by Josh Bales — June 8, 2006 @ 3:25 pm

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