Anonymous comments are now unmoderated
Four years ago culturekitchen became one of the first blogs to come under attack by spammers, especially pornography spammers. You don't know what rape looks like on a blog until you have had your webhosts server taken down in a denial-of-service style spam comment attack with over 25,000 comment entries with the word rape in them.
That happened to me four years with our old web host company and it's the reason I launched into a world-wide-web search for the best blog platform that could curtail these attacks. I found that platform to be the one I am using now, Drupal. Yet even in a slow day I would still have to delete by hand hundreds of comments spams out of the daily 2-5K we are still getting.
Not anymore ... or so it seems.
New Comments System with Captcha Module
I took Laura Scott's advice to heart and installed a contact and comment entry form confirmation system. It seems to have done the trick.
Now anonymous comments will not only be asked to provide an email (which will remain encrypted and anonymous). You will also be asked to confirm the comment with a special code number provided.
If all goes well, I'll leave comments opened like this as a policy ---yet, remember, the Editorial Team always reserves the right to delete any and all comments we deem unsuitable for not just the discussion but the site as well.
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Administrivia | Captcha | Comments | Drupal | Site Configuration | User Interface
I struggled between that one and this, but
Submitted by liza on 6 June 2007 - 12:19am.
i decided to be safe and go with images ... i've been so traumatized by the amount of spam that i put the accessibility issue after my need to stop all the bile that was coming in.
Been There
Submitted by pops (not verified) on 5 June 2007 - 5:04pm.
I never got p0rn - it was always offshore gambling on an old MT blog I finally had to shut down. One day I got about 2000 in one hour. The "host" I was using at the time then shut me out of the site because of all the activity. I found up having to make a series of phone calls and - no joke- had to cancel my acct with "the billing dept" who turned out to be a grad student in Cairo.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!
was it datex or broadspire?
Submitted by liza on 6 June 2007 - 12:20am.
although i think my guy was in nyc, he just sounded he was in cairo 
captcha module
Another option you might want to look at is the math captcha module (http://drupal.org/project/captcha), which provides you with the ability to use a match captcha, rather than a graphical one. (So the verification is "What is 5 + 7", rather than ("Please type in the letters/numbers..") I use it on my blog and it works great. From what I understand, math captchas are considered better for accessibility purposes (easier for people with screen readers, I guess.)
Congrats on the new plugin!