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by Dana Blankenhorn
October 23, 2006
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We’ve been hit bad by comment spam the last few weeks.

Each time we get a good discussion thread going, it seems the comment spam bots flood in. I usually try to erase these when I find them, but we were losing a lot of good discussion.

So I’ve taken action. I’ve implemented CAPTCHA on the comments here. That’s a "Turing test" which requires you to type a random set of letters, which are displayed in a funky way.

I don’t like CAPTCHA. I do piss-and-moan about it when I find it on other blogs. But I now know it’s necessary, and I apologize to all for that.

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Dana Blankenhorn began his career as a financial journalist in 1978, began covering technology in 1982, and the Internet in 1985. He started one of the first Internet daily newsletters, the Interactive Age Daily, in 1994. He recently retired from InvestorPlace and lives in Atlanta, GA, preparing for his next great adventure. He's a graduate of Rice University (1977) and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism (MSJ 1978). He's a native of Massapequa, NY.

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  1. Thuktun says:
    19 years ago

    Too often “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” becomes “Completely Automated Public Barrier to the Visually Impaired.”
    The CAPTCHA test here doesn’t look like it’s any exception to that, as I can’t see any fallback method for the blind or poorly-sighted to otherwise prove they’re not an automated agent.

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  2. Thuktun says:
    19 years ago

    Too often “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” becomes “Completely Automated Public Barrier to the Visually Impaired.”
    The CAPTCHA test here doesn’t look like it’s any exception to that, as I can’t see any fallback method for the blind or poorly-sighted to otherwise prove they’re not an automated agent.

    Reply

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