Comment spam is a pain. When I first set up this blogg, I was really excited to see that I was getting some comments. Then I realised that it was all spam. Grrr!

There appears a number of methods of combating this. A captcha seems to be a fairly successful method, but does make creating a comment a bit harder, even if by not much. Another option is to add some java script that is not likely to be interpreted by the bots used by the spammers. This does mean that anybody adding a comment needs to use a java script enabled browser, but the user does not have to do anything more.

The solution that I have opted for is the latter. I will leave it to run for a little while, and see how it goes. Now all I need to do is add some content to this blogg that encourages people to actually submit a comment. Maybe I should just mention the Debian Mozilla debacle 🙂