Unmoderating Comments!!!

TypePad launched CAPTCHAs yesterday afternoon.

This is the best news I've had all month and it's been a month of really good news.

I have been moderating the comments on my blog for months to rid the comments pages of spam.

Now, with CAPTCHAs, I don't have to do that anymore.

When you comment on this blog, you'll get a preview of the comment and be asked to fill out a field with some letters and numbers that are shown graphically.

So the conversation goes back to real time, I gain a bunch of wasted time back, and life is good.

Thank you TypePad!!!

Comments

[Charlie]

Good luck reading some of these silly pictures. They should have just had something that just said "Spell Fred."

[Tom W.]

I'm happy about this - was on my list at top - now they should do same for trackbacks...

[johntunger]

Fred,

There's even more good news from TypePad regarding spam control. Check out the comment from Colleen on my post about CAPTCHAs, here:

http://www.typepadhacks.org/2006/04/captchas_to_dec.html

She mentions another new anti-spam feature from TypePad that has quietly gone live.

[jackson]

Fantastic. The world is indeed a much better place now.

[Ron]

I hope this works out for you. Be aware that captchas have already been defeated on a small scale, both by computers, and by using things like Amazon's mturk, so don't fall out of your chair if you find some comment spam again at some point.