Stopping Comment Spam with text in an image

Posted February 2, 2005

I’ve implemented a control that should almost completely eliminate the comment spam that I’ve been getting. I’ve had to deal with about 50 extra comments a day about poker or viagra. I got tired of deleting them, so I looked for an easy solution to integrate with .Text (DotText).

The solution is a control called Clearscreen SharpHIP. It can easily be dropped on a page, and basically acts as a validator for the page. The user must enter the text in the graphic correctly, or they cannot post. It’s what is known as a CAPTCHA test It’s designed to be extremely flexible, so I can integrate it into any of my pages. I may integrate it into my feedback page if it becomes necessary.

Feel free to make comments to this post to try it out, and let me know what you think.

5 Comments so far

  1. SuperJason on February 2nd, 2005

    test message

  2. SuperJason on February 2nd, 2005

    If you don’t enter the right string, it loses all the stuff you typed, that sucks.

  3. SuperJason on February 7th, 2005

    testing…

  4. SuperJason on February 7th, 2005

    testing again…

  5. jal on February 16th, 2005

    testing

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