It seems that we keep getting undesirable comment spam on this site & it seems that it happens because there is no secure way of signing up as a new user. Is there a way we could add a captcha image system to the new user registration form to avoid any kind of automated user registration?
Thanks,
~Chris Bischoff
Comments
good idea
You get my vote Chris!
It looks like the latest spam user (johnrookie) is online now...
Mike
Ban the spam
A captcha sounds like a good idea. Perhaps long term we could consider an OpenId based solution - then we could start a single-sign-on type process for all our sites...
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Working on it
I'll be working on this today to try to implement a solution for it. I will probably be following the suggestions put forth on this site, Reducing Drupal Blog Spam.
Bill Hutchison
Reef to Outback
Akismet Enabled
I have enabled Akismet on all comments (I can't remember ever getting spam in the blog posts, so I didn't bother enabling it there).
We can trial this for a while and see how it works. If it doesn't reduce the spam enough then we can look at the Captcha modules.
Bill Hutchison
Reef to Outback
Good stuff
I hope Askimet does the trick here. It just caught another four spams for me over the night. It's got to help a littlbe bit I'd guess!
I hope it's enough
The thing is... I'm not sure we need spam filters on the comments... It's possible we simply need to put security on the new user registration. Perhaps just a Captcha on the new user registration would cut down a lot on spam, as it seems to me. Or am I missing something?
Thanks for your work, Bill.
Chris Bischoff
YWAM Latvia, Communications
www.ywamlatvia.com
Had trouble with Captcha
David Couper had tried to load Captcha on here before, but we ran into some problems with getting it running and set-up in the template.
If anyone else has experience with loading Captcha in Drupal let me know as if Akismet doesn't do it then we will need to look into Captcha.